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From: eric@mcrware.UUCP (Eric Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: DVI questions
Message-ID: <4999@mcrware.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 91 17:46:31 GMT
References: <573@hydra.bucknell.edu> <1991Jan15.040230.26507@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <4926@mcrware.UUCP> <1991Feb6.140751.14909@cbnewsh.att.com>
Reply-To: eric@mcrware.UUCP (Eric Miller)
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In article <1991Feb6.140751.14909@cbnewsh.att.com> rkl@cbnewsh.att.com (kevin.laux) writes:

>	I think CD-I will just fade away.  They have taken too long and not
>delivered enough.

You may be in for a surprise this summer.  The number of publishers as well
as manufacturers working behind the scenes is quite impressive.

>	72 minutes of FMV will fit on a CD, but CD-I can only play back into
>a small window (I think I was told 100 x 64 at COMDEX last November).  DVI
>provides for full screen playback (256 x 240).

Wrong.  CD-I will also deliver the FMV into a fullscreen window.  As well,
it can be encoded into many different resolutions including those
larger (either vertically or horizontally) than the display, allowing the
application to scroll around through the image.

This data can be delivered from a CD, a hard disk, or a network.

Eric Miller