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From: nick@abblund.se
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: DVI questions
Message-ID: <1991Feb13.090453.16347@abblund.se>
Date: 13 Feb 91 09:04:53 GMT
References: <573@hydra.bucknell.edu> <1991Jan15.040230.26507@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <4926@mcrware.UUCP> <1991Feb6.140751.14909@cbnewsh.att.com> <4999@mcrware.UUCP>
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In article <4999@mcrware.UUCP> eric@mcrware.UUCP (Eric Miller) writes:
>In article <1991Feb6.140751.14909@cbnewsh.att.com> rkl@cbnewsh.att.com (kevin.laux) writes:
>
>>	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.

CD-I is doomed to failure because you can't digitize your own videos
like you can with DVI. That's the only difference between CD-I and DVI.
Otherwise, for all practical purposes, they're exactly the same, 
resolution-wise, full-screen-wise, frames-per-second-wise, 
storage-media-wise, and standards-wise.

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