It's a computer! It's a TV! It's a stereo! Could CD TV also be flash in the pan?
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CD TV is the integration of such elements as computers, television and stereo with 5-inch compact disks (CDs) to produce text, images and digital sound. Commodore International Ltd and Philips Electronics N.V. will demonstrate their competing CD players and software at the Summer Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago, Il. Commodore's CDTV, known as Commodore Dynamic Total Vision, sells for $999, and disks range from $40 to $80. Philips' Compact Disc Interactive (CD-I) player is called Magnavox and will likely sell for $1,000; its disks will cost from $20 to $50. Each company's product uses a format incompatible with the other, so disks from one cannot be played on another; both systems support regular music CDs. Both Commodore and Philips officials acknowledge that CDTV is a new technology that may not catch on commercially, especially since the rival products are incompatible.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1991
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Sony, Nintendo to join forces in video games
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Nintendo Co and Sony Corp are planning to cooperate to develop compact-disk (CD) video games. The new agreement will produce video game software in CD and cartridge form that will be compatible with both Nintendo and Sony CD game systems, which will be available in the 3rd qtr of 1993 or later. Also, Sony Electronic Publishing is expected to create software for a new Nintendo CD game machine. The agreement will put the two companies in competition with Sega Enterprises Ltd, the major developer of CD-based hardware and software for video games. The companies will create a new standard for CD-ROM use, introducing CD ROM-XA, a new technology that is said to be faster than traditional CD-ROM. The Sony-Nintendo products will only be compatible with the new CD ROM-XA players. The companies will be using third-party software developers, to be licensed by Sony-Nintendo.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1992
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New 'multimedia' CDs may be confusing
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Various 'interactive' and 'multimedia' products are expected to be introduced in 1991 and 1992, but considerable confusion at first is likely because different companies have different ideas about their products. Incompatible among all these products should be the norm until market forces sort things out. Sony, for example, has one plan for its CD device called Data Discman, which is a kind of an electronic book that has been on the market in Japan for about one year, and another format for its Compact Disc-Interactive (CD-I), which should be released in Japan early in 1992. Philips is introducing its CD-I player, which plugs into television sets. Seventy software companies are uniting to announce a standard for multimedia microcomputers.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1991
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