CDTV

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Template:CVG system The CDTV (for Commodore Dynamic Total Vision) was the first computer to come with a CD-ROM drive as standard.

It was made by Commodore International and launched in March 1991. Designed and marketed as a set-top box to go along with your VCR and be used as a CD-player and games console, it lost out to its main competitor CD-i, with neither having any real commercial success.

The CDTV was essentially a black Amiga 500 with a CD-ROM, but with the disadvantage of not having a keyboard, mouse or diskdrive as standard. Commodore chose Amiga magazines as its chief advertising platform, but the Amiga community on the whole avoided the CDTV in the expectation of an add-on CD-ROM drive for the Amiga, which eventually came in the form of the A570.

The CDTV was a commercial failure and was eventually replaced by the Amiga CD32. One possible reason for its failure was that it used the already-obsolete AmigaOS 1.3, rather than the much more advanced 2.0.

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