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- From: Stephen Jonke <jonke@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Subject: Re: Video on standard CD's?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.210746.17015@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 21:07:46 GMT
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- In article <Bxz2LB.n44@fc.hp.com> Bob Niland, rjn@FC.HP.COM writes:
- >> Speaking of this, I noticed in the latest Radio Shack flyer that they're
- >> touting something called "VES" (for Video Entertainment System)...
- >
- >Which sounds like yet-another-video-on-CD format.
- >And I forgot CDTV in my list.
- >What a mess.
-
- VIS (I for "information")
-
- It's a competitor to CD-I and from the bit that I played with it, I'm almost
- certain it will be ignored by the populace just as CD-I has been -- there is
- no market for "multimedia on your TV". At best it will slow multimedia
- development to a crawl (because the failure of both CD-I and VIS will make
- companies pull out of the market) and at worst will completely kill it.
-
- Steve
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