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- From: robelr@ucs.indiana.edu (Allen Robel)
- Subject: Re: Overcoming Barriers to Multimedia
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- References: <1993Jan25.120157.13410@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:24:08 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.120157.13410@waikato.ac.nz> ldo@waikato.ac.nz
- (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes:
- > In article <81307@hydra.gatech.EDU>, jt34@prism.gatech.EDU
- (THOMPSON,JOHN C) writes:
-
- > I would say further that "Interactive Multimedia" is splitting into two
- > distinct varieties: the "traditional" variety, involving reliance on
- external
- > hardware like laserdisc players and the like in the delivery platform,
- and
- > (for want of a better term) the "desktop digital video" variety,
- exemplified
- > by QuickTime and Video for Windows.
- >
-
- I agree. The "desktop digital video" variety (which the original
- poster does not mention) brings up many issues that the original
- poster does not have questions for. For instance:
-
- With networked multimedia:
-
- 1) Who manages the information?
- 2) Who creates the source material?
- 3) Who takes care of the copyright issues?
- 4) Who manages the network infrastructure (there are
- HUGE network provisioning and maintenance issues
- to deal with).
- 5) What network protocols will ultimately prevail
- for multimedia (e.g. ST-II, MTP, RTP, others?)
- 6) What network technologies will best be suited
- in both the short and long terms to handle
- multimedia traffic and traffic management (e.g.
- switched ethernet, ATM, FDDI, 100Mb/s ethernet)?
-
- I wish that folks would get over the "computer as
- control centre" paradigm. Networking multimedia
- offers SO much more potential, and the sooner the user
- community recognizes this, the sooner we can, as a group,
- start pressuring vendors to get serious about standards
- and politicians to get serious about rethinking copyright
- in an electronic age.
-
- Allen Robel robelr@mythos.ucs.indiana.edu
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