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- From: buck@ra.nrl.navy.mil (Loren Buchanan)
- Subject: Re: QuickTime
- Message-ID: <C1Ip4K.8p@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Followup-To: comp.sys.sgi.apps
- Summary: Buy it from Apple
- Keywords: Quicktime Apple SGI
- Sender: buck@curie.nrl.navy.mil
- Organization: Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC
- References: <C1ID2C.AL4@wm.estec.esa.nl>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:48:19 GMT
- Lines: 47
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- In article <C1ID2C.AL4@wm.estec.esa.nl> guy@wmsg02.wm.estec.esa.nl (Guy Brooker) writes:
- >The help and information given through comp.sys.sgi by all the sgi people is
- >quite magnificent, and highly praiseworthy. We love you all! Isn't that right!
-
- I agree 100 percent.
-
- >Excuse me, but wasn't it SGI who made a big fanfare about porting QuickTime
- >onto their platform last year, getting thier name in the news of a number of
- >respected industry journals... Since that 'pre-announcement' everything
- >appears to have gone silent.
-
- This is very common in the industry as a whole. There have been a large
- number of multimedia annoucements, proposals, contracts, etc. bandied about
- not only by SGI but lots of other companies. I would like to see most of
- these competing formats disappear. The format I prefer is CDI from Philips,
- but for mostly political reasons I expect it will fail, likewise I expect
- Quicktime to fail for similar reasons. Whatever does succeed will be
- encodeable onto CD-ROM, is compatible with Photo CD, supports full motion
- video, and has at a minimum of NTSC and PAL output (SECAM, and both 60HZ and
- 50HZ HDTV being desired additional outputs).
-
- Until a clear leader emerges from the multimedia swamp I have decided to
- standardize on Quicktime. Right now if I want to play a Quicktime movie, it
- has to be on a Mac. This is not such a bad thing. We have the Quicktime
- Movie Exchange toolkit installed on our IRIS and we can shove stuff into it,
- and we get Quicktime movies out that we can transfer to our Macs for display.
- My only wish is that it was Version 1.5 instead of 1.0. This toolkit is sold
- by Apple in source code form (you need to supply a C++ compiler).
-
- >Lets hope that the (quick)time is nigh !
-
- Something to also consider is SGI's viewpoint on paying royalties to Apple
- when they have their own movie format. I really don't care whether it is
- CDI, Quicktime, PREMO (the proposed ISO new work item), DVI, Ultimedia, MPC,
- VIS, IMA's proposal, CDTV, ect. as long as I can play it on any reasonable
- computer (it has a display, audio, and a mouse equivalent) and can be down
- loaded to a CD-ROM for playback on something like a Philips CDI 360.
-
- B Cing U
-
- Buck
-
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