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From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: CD-ROM II standard?
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Date: 4 Jan 91 18:32:44 GMT
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In article <1991Jan3.151718.3398@idayton.field.intel.com>, jimf@idayton.field.intel.com (Jim Fister) writes:
>sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) writes:
>
>>CD-ROM has been around for a while @ 550MB/disk. Will we see a
>>second-generation CD-ROM format with something like 2 GB of storage, and
>>downward compatability with current CD-ROM formats? Isn't more-than-550MB a
>>necessity when you start playing with DVI/interactive video? (Unless you want
>>to play games with compression all the time...)
>
>Disclaimer:  I only know what I read, which can often be dangerous.

>As far a DVI goes (which I know a bit about,too and I didn't get it all from
>books) a CD-ROM can hold up to 70 min. of full-screen, full-motion video with
>good quality stereo audio.  This is fine for almost all the applications
>running today. 

#1 Basic Rule of Thumb for Computing Power (Speed/Storage) : It's never enough.

It might be nice to have a superset which could store 2GB


 Doug Mohney, Operations Manager, CAD Lab/ME, Univ. of Maryland College Park
			*  Ray Kaplan was right *