CDTV-CR
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Standard Specifications

 

Case Type: Set Top Box / VCR
Processor: Unknown
MMU: Unknown
FPU: Unknown
Chipset: ECS (plus additional chips Grace and Beauty)
Kickstarts: V2.05
Expansion Slots: 1 x FMV slot
1x Video Slot
1 x PCMCIA styled connector.
Note, this is NOT a true PCMCIA connector, only very early experimental units ever contained a true PCMCIA slot
Standard CHIP RAM: 2MB
RAM sockets: Unknown
Hard Drive Controllers: 1 x (2.5"??) IDE Controller
Drive Bays: 1 x 3.5"
1 x 5.25"
Expansion Ports: 1 x Mini-Din Serial
1 x 25pin Parallel
1 x 23pin RGB Video
1 x S-Video
1 x Composite
1 x 23pin External Floppy
2 x RCA Audio (Left/Right)
1 x MIDI IN/OUT
1 x 3.5mm Heaphone Socket
Floppy Drive: 1 x Internal 880k Floppy Drive
Motherboard Revisions: Unknown
Battery Backed Up Clock: Unknown

The CDTV-II, perhaps correctly called the CDTV-CR (CR = Cost Reduced) was intended as the successor to the original CDTV. Unfortunately like many of Commodore's projects it was never officially released to the public. Like the original, the CDTV-II also includes an infra-red remote controller but it also has a digital LCD display on the front and a built-in floppy drive which the original doesn't have. The CDTV-II does not have a keyboard port, or a mouse port like the original model* Around 60 units was produced.

* 11-03-2016: Correction. According to picture submitted by Stefan Egger the CDTV-II HAS a keyboard port.

 

Page contributors: Nominoua, Simon Vergauwen, Stefan Egger
Updated: 8/5/2018 . Added: 12/22/2004