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- From: mah0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (MARC A. HARLACHER)
- Newsgroups: rec.video
- Subject: Video on standard CD's?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.153215.41492@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 15:32:15 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
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- While doing some research lately on digital audio encoding, I came across
- something I thought was quite interesting. Standard audio CD's have the
- capability to store video images. In fact, I have even gone to a local CD
- shop and found a Fleetwood Mac CD that has video stored on it. These
- discoveries have led to a number of questions. First: How does one decode
- this video so that it can be enjoyed? Obviously we need a CD player with some
- sort of video output. Will laserdisc players decode this video? From my
- basic understanding, this technology was built-in to the CD coding scheme
- developed way back when. It is different from CDV - is that right?
- Second: How sophisticated is the video. I read that it will only be perhaps
- single frames (great for album covers, concert footage, etc.) or maybe even
- the lyrics to the song which is currently being played.
-
- If anyone knows anything about this stuff, I'd love to know more.
-
- Thanks,
-
- Marc
-
-