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From: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu)
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Subject: Re: 60 min. of digital video on a CD
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Date: Thu, 19-Mar-87 20:24:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 19 20:24:00 1987
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In article <4286@videovax.Tek.COM> bill@videovax.Tek.COM (William K. McFadden) writes:
>In this week's _TV_DIGEST_, there is an article about a new system unveiled
>at last week's CD ROM conference in Seattle which makes possible 60-72 minutes
>of NTSC or PAL quality digital video (with digital audio) on a CD.  It was
>developed by RCA and another big company whose name escapes me at the moment.
>The system is claimed to be completely interactive and the demonstration drew a
>standing ovation from the crowd of 1000.  The heart of the system is two VLSI
>chips developed by a third company (the article mentions who, but I don't have
>it in front of me, and can't remember).  The demonstration took Philips by
>surprise, because this system is sure to threaten their CD-V system, which
>contains up to 5 min. of analog video plus 20 min. of CD digital audio on a CD.
>-- 
>Bill McFadden    Tektronix, Inc.  P.O. Box 500  MS 58-639  Beaverton, OR  97077

The other big company in question is GE which recently "merged with"
(read: bought) RCA, and the "third company" probably refers to the Sarnoff
labs, formerly RCA's and the birthplace of color TV, laserdiscs, and God
knows what else, which GE donated to SRI.

For a decent write-up, consult last week's Infoworld; for a better
write-up, look at last week's EE Times.  I believe the latter article
mentioned that (1) RCA/GE will continue to fund the research despite no
longer owning Sarnoff, and that (2) it won't see product for at least
another year or two.

-dave
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