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- Organization: University of Maryland at Baltimore
- Date: Friday, 20 Nov 1992 05:08:23 EST
- From: <CHUNTER@UMAB.BITNET>
- Message-ID: <92325.050823CHUNTER@UMAB.BITNET>
- Newsgroups: rec.video
- Subject: Re: Video on standard CD's?
- References: <1992Nov18.153215.41492@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> <BxxApC.B9x@fc.hp.com>
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- In article: <BxxApC.B9x@fc.hp.com>, rjn@FC.HP.COM (Bob Niland) 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.
-
- The last bit is not true. The Apple CD300i CD-ROM drive is fully CD-ROM/XA
- capable and can thus read all sessions on a multisession PhotoCD. The CD300i
- can also play regular audio CDs and can decode and display the "G" data from
- CD-G discs. This CD-ROM drive is currently shipping with the Mac IIvx and will
- be available as an external upgrade for other Macs next month. Finally, the CD
- 300i should not be confused with the CD150 which can only read the first
- session from PhotoCDs.
-
- Colin Hunter
- chunter@umab.umd.edu
-