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- From: alves@calvin.usc.edu (William Alves)
- Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
- Subject: Re: Curious: TV in a window...
- Date: 27 Jul 1992 17:50:05 -0700
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- In article <1992Jul26.153332.8827@bcrka451.bnr.ca> custeng1@bcrka333.bnr.ca (Wayne McFall) writes:
- >As I was leafing through the May issue of Byte magazine recently,
- >I saw an add for a board which allowed television signals to be
- >displayed on a window. I mentioned to a nearby friend that I
- >thought it was pretty interesting, and he abruptly responded
- >"Why... I serves no practical purpose."
-
- >Well, my [limited] knowledge of multimedia tells me otherwise.
- >What are some of these apparantly non-existant "practical purposes?"
-
- Some advantages to video in a window:
- 1. You don't have to spend money or deskspace for a second monitor.
- 2. The information on the screen seems visually more integrated, which
- is important for many hypermedia applications.
- 3. Relationships between the video and other information the computer is
- displaying are easier to draw. (Arrows, descriptive text, I've even
- seen a person talking and pointing to things on the computer screen
- from within the video window).
-
- Some disadvantages:
- 1. You have to spend money for a special video card (may still be less
- than a second monitor).
- 2. You don't have the spatial resolution of full-screen video. While many
- video cards have a full-screen option, you would then of course hide
- everything else on the screen. Some applications I've seen allow you
- to click on the picture to toggle between full-screen and window only.
-
- Bill Alves
-