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From: stevem@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM (Steve McClure)
Newsgroups: comp.ivideodisc
Subject: Re: Interactive Video-disc.
Message-ID: <2256@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 2 Aug 90 11:45:43 GMT
References: <1455taylorj@yvax.byu.edu>
Reply-To: stevem@sauron.UUCP (Steve McClure)
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In article <1455taylorj@yvax.byu.edu> taylorj@yvax.byu.edu writes:
+This is a pretty vague question, so here is a vague answer:
+
+You can do interactive video with both videodisc or video tape.  The main
+disadvantage to tape is that it's slower than disc.  There are a number of
+commercial hardware boxes that let a computer control certain videotape players
+with complete accuracy.
+
+There are many models of videodisc players designed to be computer controlled.
+All you need is a serial connection between your computer and the player.
+
+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.  The same toolkits are just beginning to appear for ToolBook (which
+requires Windows 3.0) on the IBM.
+

Don't forget the Amiga, with the new AmigaVision package VideoDisc control
is a snap.  A very powerful and simple package.  No toolkits needed.

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