harrow@exodus.dec.com (Jeff Harrow, NCSE LKG1-3/F16 DTN=226-7445) (10/24/86)
I'd like to add my 2 cents on the recent posting of the Max
Headroom digitized audio sequence:
I'm not going to debate the cost effectiveness of transmitting a
170K byte (or so) file from Australia around the world, because,
at least in my mind, this network is, to a large extent, a
RESEARCH network (implicitly, if not explicitly), and it is
SOOooo very difficult to "justify" research expenses.
However, even though all that data only produced a few seconds
(20?) of audio, CONSIDER WHAT WHAT WAS DONE:
An individual halfway across the world (from me) captured, in
fine detail, all the nuances of the spoken word, and made that
available to thousands of other people, with exactly the same
quality, totally via electronic (stored) distribution! No
physical tapes or records, no slow airmail (or boatmail?), no
loss of quality thru duplication... yet everyone of us had the
opportunity to experience all of the detail of that sound!
Now while this may seem trivial for a Max Headroom quote, consider
the myriad possibilities for more "real world" applications of
high quality electronically distributed "sound recordings"...
Remember, few thought that phonograph records were other than a
passing curiosity!
Jeff Harrow
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Littleton, MA 01460zben@umd5 (Ben Cranston) (10/27/86)
I hate to waste net bandwidth advertising my own ignorance, but after
grabbing the ten parts and catenating them, and downloading same, I end
up with a huge typeless document that cannot be edited and does not seem
to be a Packit archive either. Could some kind soul MAIL me an explanation
of what I must do [or buy :-(] to make Max speak?
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umd2.BITNET "via HASP with RSCS"ching@amd.UUCP (Mike Ching) (10/27/86)
The Max Headroom file is a digitized sound file and can be played with SoundPlay from MacNifty. I don't know if they allow distribution of the program but it appeared on the net packed with Glen Frye and Money for Nuttin'.