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- From: wlrc@uhura.neoucom.edu (William R. Cruce)
- Subject: Re: Video on standard CD's?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.185701.552@uhura.neoucom.edu>
- Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
- References: <1992Nov18.153215.41492@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> <BxxApC.B9x@fc.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:57:01 GMT
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- In article <BxxApC.B9x@fc.hp.com> rjn@FC.HP.COM writes:
- >
- > PhotoCD CD-ROM/XA "bridge" format. Uses proprietary Kodak compression to
- > store still frames and various resolutions. Requires a PhotoCD or
- > CD-I player or CD-ROM/XA drive and host software. Video output at
- > player back panel is NTSC res regardless of stored res. Actual
- > PhotoCD media is ablative dye-polymer CD-WORM (incremental write-
- > once). No CD-ROM drives are currently available that can read more
- > than the first "session" on the CD.
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- I have seen a few CD-ROM drives advertising that they support PhotoCD,
- e.g. NEC's new double speed one (model not handy). I thought the main
- issue was being able to read the new type directory required for the
- multiple sessions. Is there some advertising hype involved here?
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