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From: mark@calvin..westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson)
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Subject: Re: Doing animation to flopticals, and Re: Imagine
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Date: 17 Dec 90 20:26:42 GMT
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In article <1990Dec15.042510.14514@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>Is anyone doing work onto other media, such
>as floppy optical storage, that would allow an animation to be created and
>then dumped to videotape at normal recording speeds?

I would like to hear someone tell me I am wrong but I am fairly certain
that floptical/CD/CD-ROM and the like are not capable of the data
bandwidths required for high quality video storage. The recordable laser
video disks are currently the only things capable of this. Of course
you could always stack a BUNCH of them in parallel to achieve it but then
whats the point. Then again, MPEG will probably change the situation.

>Kent, the man from xanth.
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|  mark@westford.ccur.com                                                  |
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