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From: jim@newmedia.UUCP (Jim Beveridge)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: M/Motion? (Re: IBM InfoWindow)
Summary: What is multimedia
Message-ID: <434@newmedia.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jan 91 15:27:17 GMT
References: <1991Jan17.150619.6272@intelhf.hf.intel.com> <428@newmedia.UUCP> <CIMSHOP!DAVIDM.91Jan21153746@uunet.UU.NET>
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In article <CIMSHOP!DAVIDM.91Jan21153746@uunet.UU.NET>, cimshop!davidm@uunet.UU.NET (David S. Masterson) writes:
> >>>>> On 18 Jan 91 01:27:23 GMT, jim@newmedia.UUCP (Jim Beveridge) said:
> 
> Forgive me, but, coming from the Amiga world, I not real familiar with this
> board or multimedia in the IBM arena, but my brother's been asking some
> questions, so I thought I'd try to brush up.  Can you give me a rundown on the
> types of applications where this board would be used and what capabilities it
> would bring to those applications?

I'll start out with a quote.  
The Wall Street Journal had an article on multimedia on
Wed Nov 28, 1990 (pg B4, Col 1).  They say, "Multimedia technologies
are exciting because they promise to combine the best features
of computing, television and audio.  Students of, say, U.S. history
could learn about the Vietnam War by juxtaposing the text from an
electronic book with film clips stored on a compact disc.  Music
buffs could listen to, say, the solos of jazz great Louis Armstrong
while viewing transcriptions of his performances at the same time."

Our board does the video and audio part of this.  You could have 
a laserdisk full of images of Egyptian Art (Full TV color, 
not 256 color 8 bit images), combine that with a database of 
information about each picture, and add the capability of making
annotations.

Consider a new user of Some Spreadsheet (as in, "Gosh, that's
Some Spreadsheet!" :-) )  Most new users a very intimidated
by computers.  A person who appeared on the screen who talked
to you would be just like a TV, which everyone is familiar with.

A quick run-down:
	Computer based training
	Video teleconferencing (image if your computer _was_ the phone)
	Home video editing systems
	Military applications :-(

In other words, we are rapidly approaching a point where there
will be no difference between your computer, your stereo and
your TV.  Most of the new TV standards up for review to replace
NTSC are all digital, and this places them directly in the domain
of the computer.  Now on to virtual reality...

		Jim