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From: reid@sunpix.East.Sun.COM (Reid Judd - Sun Visualization Products)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Which multimedia interface??? (Was: NeXT/Amiga Multimedia..)
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Date: 31 May 91 18:36:16 GMT
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In article <MELBY.91May31014312@daffy.yk.Fujitsu.CO.JP> melby@daffy.yk.Fujitsu.CO.JP (John B. Melby) writes:
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><flame about "Amiga pep rally" omitted>
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>It would be much more useful, IMHO, to take up issues such as the
>following:
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>* is a multimedia interface really useful for projects of type Z on
>  system X?
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><other stuff omitted>
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>John B. Melby
>Fujitsu Limited, Machida, Japan
>melby%yk.fujitsu.co.jp@fai.com


   OK, which multimedia interface really useful for projects
   of type Z on system X?

	1) Common video formats NTSC/HDTV/PAL? 
	2) Hardware image compression/decompression?
	3) High quality (digital) audio in/out?
	4) FAX in/out?
	5) A CCD camera for video in/out (video conferencing)?
	6) MIDI in/out (is this useful for control of 
		external peripherals other than music synths?)? 
	7) Other peripheral controlers?
	8) Anything else???

  In other words, if you could talk to the companies designing
  the next generation of multimedia processors and interfaces,
  what would your "dream system" be?  

  -- reid judd
     reid@sunpix.East.Sun.COM