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- From: fontana@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark Fontana)
- Subject: Re: Photo CD
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.073841.8610@cis.ohio-state.edu>
- Sender: news@cis.ohio-state.edu (NETnews )
- Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
- References: <13731@optilink.COM> <1992Dec29.154449.12480@stsci.edu> <1992Dec29.231754.21328@siemens.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 07:38:41 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.231754.21328@siemens.com> aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri) writes:
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- >>Just imagine, if Kodak floods the market with Photo-CD players and
- >>other hardware
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-
- Yah, well if the majority of their consumer-level players load
- images as slowly as on the television commercials, I bet people
- won't be too excited about them. (In the ads, pictures appear to
- load slower than a 286 chugging through your average 640x480
- GIF file. And those are the LOWEST resolution format images
- on the Photo CD!)
-
- A frame buffer scheme would be better, so you could view one picture
- while loading another. Even then, they should try and improve
- the loading speed; CDROM's don't have that bad a transfer rate,
- just a fairly long seek time.
-
- Mark
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