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Console1991

Commodore CDTV

Commodore CDTV with CD drive and control panel on the front side, diagonally from above
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Separate black keyboard for Commodore CDTV
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Summary

In 1991, Commodore introduced the CDTV (Commodore Dynamic Total Vision), which puts an Amiga 500 with a CD drive in a Hifi case. With the remote control, the console can play normal CDs, for videos the computing power is not enough. The exception are special films in CDXL format, which come directly from the CD, but with 256 x 128 pixels are quite small resolved. The repeat frequency is only 12 images/sec. Games on CDs are not very common for the Amiga system, but a floppy disk drive can be connected to the CDTV to use the typical software. In addition to the drive there are other accessories such as a keyboard or hard drives. The CDTV competes against the CD-i system distributed by Philips, but both are not very successful. Commodore starts another attempt in the console market with the Amiga CD32, but it also fails.

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  1. PredecessorC64 Games System
  2. This objectCDTV
  3. SuccessorAmiga CD32

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