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From: a544@mindlink.UUCP (Rick McCormack)
Newsgroups: comp.ivideodisc
Subject: How much on a CD?
Message-ID: <3931@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 24 Nov 90 16:32:55 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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in an article, Sherman Wilcox
writes:

>And now, a question for anyone out there who might be reading >this. I keep
hearing that we will soon have the technology to >do a project like this on
CD-ROM. Does anyone have any idea >approximately how much full-motion video we
can expect to >store on a CD-ROM? I realize this depends on many things (as >I
understand it, picture size, frames per second, compression >factors, etc). Any
ballpark figures?

I remeber hearing that we could expect to get less than 20 minutes of realtime
video, when they get the new CD-I, CD-X, CD-A discs functional.  CD-I is
supposedly well into the development stage, but that has been said for 14
months now.  CD-X is in use industrially (anyone out there using this beast
yet?)

I have figures here from a research project this summer - but I can't FIND them
yet!!!  When I clear my desk, I will post a more definitive answer.
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