Amiga CDTV (Commodore Dynamic Total Vision)

What can I do with a CDTV?
The Commodore CDTV is basically an Amiga 500, with a new case, a CD-ROM drive,ECS chipset and a PCMCIA slot for memory cards. Commodore Dynamic Total Vision, was supposed to be the product that would sneak itself into the homes of the common people, and do many different things from, playing a music CD, to teaching interactive lessons. The problem was, nobody knew it was out there and it failed. You can still play music CD's, play CD-G (kareoke), and if you get the optional MPEG video option, watch CDVideos. Other than that, there aren’t that many options for it. You may be able to convert several games from an Amiga 500 and play those with the CDTV, or use this as a collectors item, it may not be worth money now, but in the future, you never know.

Can the CDTV run modern software?
NO. many of the new software titles that come on CD, require OS2.1 and above ,if not AGA, and without upgrading the CDTV, to a full computer, which is increasingly difficult, there would be no way.

Can I connect to the Internet?
Not very likely. It would be too hard to install all the programs you need, unless you have the full computer version. If you do have the full computer version ,see the information on the Amiga 500/600

How do I expand it?
There are slots in the front and the back, plus a PCMCIA slot on the CDTV, for expansion, but I am not sure how far you can go. I have seen genlock modules and MPEG video modules available on the auction sites.

The other possibilities for expansion are to use a CD burner on another Amiga to create CD 'hard drives' that would have all the software you would need for the CDTV to do what you wanted, but this would take some experimentation. Though there may be a market here for those interested in a venture.