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From: martin@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Daniel Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.ivideodisc
Subject: Re: Interactive Video-disc.
Message-ID: <1990Aug2.135812.11148@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Date: 2 Aug 90 13:58:12 GMT
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In article <1455taylorj@yvax.byu.edu> taylorj@yvax.byu.edu writes:
...
>You can either use a separate TV monitor for the player or you can buy a
>special card to combine computer video and videodisc video on the computer
>screen (the cards run from $600 to $5000).
>
>All this can be done both with Macintosh and IBM PCs.  There are special
>toolkits for HyperCard that make it very easy to control almost all videodisc
>players. 
>
>Jim Taylor

   All this can be done cheaply on an Amiga PC.  Genlock cards for most 
application range from 200-700$.  Drivers for major videodisc players are
available on AmigaVision authoring system (packaged free, like hypercard).

   Of all the machine, the IBM pc's are the less appropriate to multimedia
application [1].  All features must be bought separatly (authoring systems, 
interface card, driver, ...)  The macintosh offer a better solution, although
video genlocking card and frame buffers are still quite expensive.

   Daniel.

References
[1] Robinson, P., "The Four Multimedia Gospels", Byte, Febuary 1990.


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