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- Subject: Re: Photo CD
- Message-ID: <93001.133249I18BC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
- From: CUNY/Spartacus <I18BC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
- Date: Friday, 1 Jan 1993 13:32:49 EST
- References: <13731@optilink.COM> <1992Dec29.154449.12480@stsci.edu><1992Dec29.231754.21328
- @siemens.com> <1993Jan1.073841.8610@cis.ohio-state.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan1.073841.8610@cis.ohio-state.edu>,
- fontana@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark Fontana) says:
- >
- >In article <1992Dec29.231754.21328@siemens.com> aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri)
- >writes:
- >
- >>>Just imagine, if Kodak floods the market with Photo-CD players and
- >>>other hardware
- >
- >
- >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!)
-
- Yup, I noticed that too. But I'm pretty sure its a matter of
- time until other companies like JVC, Pioneer & Sony will come
- out with their own players. However I don't think speed is
- as important on a home viewer as it would be on a desktop micro.
- >
- >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.
-
- Good Idea
- >
- >Mark
- >
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