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Korodny · 23 January 2020, 23:13

It was way more expensive than an A500. And while it basically was an A500 with a CD drive attached, it couldn't run any existing Amiga software unless you bought keyboard, mouse and disk drive separately - but with the cost of all those peripherals, you ended up at twice the price of the A500, IIRC.

There simply was not enough CD based software to justify that added cost. And if you already had an audio CD collection, you already owned a CD player - so that was not much of a reason to buy either.

IIRC, the CDTV shipped for $1000 initially. The only competitor - the Philips CD-i - shipped for $700 - but that was also a failure.

Plus, as somebody already mentioned: As usual, Commodore had no idea how to market it.

23 January 2020, 23:13	#8
Korodny Zone Friend Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Germany Posts: 812	It was way more expensive than an A500. And while it basically was an A500 with a CD drive attached, it couldn't run any existing Amiga software unless you bought keyboard, mouse and disk drive separately - but with the cost of all those peripherals, you ended up at twice the price of the A500, IIRC. There simply was not enough CD based software to justify that added cost. And if you already had an audio CD collection, you already owned a CD player - so that was not much of a reason to buy either. IIRC, the CDTV shipped for $1000 initially. The only competitor - the Philips CD-i - shipped for $700 - but that was also a failure. Plus, as somebody already mentioned: As usual, Commodore had no idea how to market it. Last edited by Korodny; 25 January 2020 at 02:34.