Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: RE: MOVIES ON CD
From: justin.long@exchange.com (Justin Long)
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Date: Thu,  6 Jan 94 21:41:00 -0500
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From: STEVE@ONE47.DEMON.CO.UK      Refer#: NONE

ST|In article <1994Jan5.125927.20734@brtph560.bnr.ca> baptiste@bnr.ca writes:
  |>The new CD-I players from Phillips have Compressed Video capability
  |>I've seen movies on both one or two 5" discs.  The player uses a
  |>400MIPS adapter pack for decompression in realtime.  I'm not sure
  |>what format they use (Probably proprietary) or what is in the pack.
  |>The interesting part is that recent movies (Patriot Games, etc..)
  |>were priced around 20-25 dollars which compared to laser discs is
  |>quite reasonable.
  |>
  |>As for Movies on your PC with CD-ROM,  why???????

ST|I have a CD-I and can confirm that a CD will hold 74 minutes
  |of excellent quality movie with Dolby Surround sound etc etc. All of
  |the existing titles are on 2 disks, and allow you to jump to one of
  |between 20 or 30 "Tracks" on the disks so you can instantly get to
  |the bit of the film you want. I paid 15 UK pounds for my films which
  |for a media as reliable and lasting as CD is good in my books. (Usually
  |about 13 UK pounds for a VHS tape)

Okay, so I have a 486/66DX2, 17" NEC 5FG Monitor, 8MB RAM, Windows, etc.
I'm looking to purchase CD-ROM in the near future. Can you (or
someone) give me a list of the things needed to do this? Is the Phillips
drive the only one that can do movies? Are the movies really good
reproductions--e.g. not slow-motion 15 frames per second etc.,
relatively flicker free? Do I need a special video card or interface
card? I've got a Pro Audio Spectrum 16 (and I think that's got a SCSi
port on it, though I'm not positive...)


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