Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 10:22:31 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Video CDs? Message-ID: <20000829102231.C24849@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008290951030.36965-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>; from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us on Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:00:30AM -0500 References: <200008291331.PAA82473@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008290951030.36965-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:00:30AM -0500, Chris Dillon wrote: > On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > It certainly can't do that, because LaserDisc is not covered by > > Red Book. It's not even digital data. LaserDisc video is > > analogue. You definitely need a real LaserDisc player for this. > > You must be thinking of the old, OLD, funny looking green "Video > Discs". Those were analog. The "Laser Discs" that just look like > large 12" CD's are indeed fully digital, both audio and video. Laser > Discs are still big in the education area because they are used to > hold a humungous number of easily accessable still pictures (when used > with a special Laser Disc player with bar-code reader and barcoded > image index), video clips (of course), and other neat interactive > stuff. No, LaserDiscs are mostly analog. Modern forms have digital audio tracks, but the video is always analog. There's some comparison info at http://www.cs.tut.fi/~leopold/Ld/VideoFormats.html. I remember using a number of those cool educational disks in Middle School and High School driven via a Mac with HyperCard. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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