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From: korcuska@plato.ils.nwu.edu (Michael Korcuska)
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Subject: Re: DVI questions
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Date: 4 Feb 91 17:21:03 GMT
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In article <4687@mcrware.UUCP> eric@mcrware.UUCP (Eric Miller) writes:
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>This is one of the fundamental strengths of a system like CD-I.  You have almost
>a dozen of the largest consumer electronics OEMs in the world making players
>based on ISO and other international standards.  And the FMV technology is
>based on MPEG, which is being standardized by everybody from Philips to NTT
>to BellCor.
>

As I understand it, CD-I does not have full-motion video compression 
available and it is unclear when they will have it.  Do you know something
about the timetable for this capability?  It looks to me that for those of us
who care about FMV should not be jumping on the CD-I bandwagon especially 
with its reliance upon CDs for storage.  650 megs just doesn't provide the 
space for a huge amount of video and the 150KB/sec data transfer rate for 
CDs doesn't leave much room for improving video quality.  It seems that by
the time CD-I has full motion video we might see DVI supporting MPEG.

Or am I totally wrong??




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Michael Korcuska                      The Institute for the Learning Sciences
korcuska@ils.nwu.edu                                  Northwestern University
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