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From: rolandi@gollum.UUCP (wgr)
Newsgroups: comp.ivideodisc
Subject: CD ROM potential versus actual markets
Message-ID: <200@gollum.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 89 18:52:33 GMT
Reply-To: rolandi@gollum.UUCP (Walter G. Rolandi)
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In response to Ross Oliver's:
>>	CD-ROM Review $34.97/year

>I tried to subscribe to this magazine at the end of
>last year.  Last week, I received a letter stating that
>publication had been discontinued as of December 1988.
>I think it reflects the state of the CD-ROM industry
>as a whole: a technology in search of a market.

I agree.  No matter what promise this technology holds for interactive
audio-video and multimedia computer interfaces, the market for such
devices will remain on ice until there is an industry standard for
optical read-write media with transfer rates high enough to support
multiwindow full motion video.


Walter Rolandi
rolandi@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM
NCR Advanced Systems Development
Columbia, SC  USA