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Path: utzoo!dciem!client2!king
From: king@client2.dciem.dnd.ca (Stephen King)
Newsgroups: rec.video,comp.ivideodisc
Subject: Re: storage/retrieval of short video segments
Message-ID: <1310@client2.dciem.dnd.ca>
Date: 28 Dec 88 12:59:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: client2.1310
References: <1261@uswat.UUCP> <1216@cygnet.CYGNETSYSTEMS>
Reply-To: king@client2.dciem.dnd.ca (Stephen King)
Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada
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In article <1216@cygnet.CYGNETSYSTEMS> mark@cygnet.UUCP (Mark Quattrocchi) writes:
>In article <1261@uswat.UUCP> bulick@comanche.USWest.COM () writes:
>>The obvious choice (to a video novice like me, anyway) is some sort of
>>videodisc system. Since Write-Many-Read-Many technology has been
>> [...]
>Both Pioneer and Sony make write once laser disk mastering systems for
>about the same price as the Panasonic.

McDonnell-Douglas make a write-once system called 'Laserfilm'. The media is
flexible 12" photographic material, and apparently low cost. I seem to
remember a system by Teac/Tascam (or perhaps Toshiba) that also did
write-once video. However, few of these systems are compatible with each
other.

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