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From: ns@CAT.CMU.EDU (Nicholas Spies)
Newsgroups: comp.ivideodisc
Subject: Re: Getting Started with Interactive Videodiscs
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Date: 29 Jan 88 03:23:06 GMT
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Keywords: Which is the best videodisc player?

In article <40268@sun.uucp> dcj%jacksun@Sun.COM (Donald Clark Jackson) writes:
>OK,
>
>Lets say I want to play around with interactive video discs.
>Obviously, I have a computer.  Now I need a video disc player.
>
> 0) Which is the best video disc player to buy?

The Pioneer 6000 series are most widely used (I think) by far, and thus present
fewest difficulties with software packages. The Sony 2000 is somewhat easier
to program and can be upgraded in several steps, depending on what you need.

>
> 1) Are there any consumer video disc players that can
>    be controlled by computer?

??

>
> 2) Are there any 'professional' video disc players that
>    can play 5" CD-V discs?
>

??

> 3) RS-232 control is preferable to HP-IB control (for me),
>    are there any advantages of one over the other (aside from cost?)

Using IEEE interface permits recovering data stored in the video (I think).

>
> 4) After I get a video disc player, and hack up some code to
>    control it from my computer, what are some good discs to
>    buy?  
>
National Gallery of Art is an attractive trial disc. A good source of info
is the Videodisc Group at Nebraska Educational Television (Lincoln). Sorry
I don't have address.


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Nicholas Spies			ns@cat.cmu.edu.arpa
Center for Design
of Educational Computing
Carnegie Mellon University
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Nicholas Spies			ns@cat.cmu.edu.arpa
Center for Design
of Educational Computing
Carnegie Mellon University