a544@mindlink.UUCP (Rick McCormack) (11/15/90)
I for one would welcome any terminology that did not owe allegiance to multi-image slide shows using audio and video (know for a long time as multi-media) or vast conglomerates of broadcast-newspaper-radio chains (among the biggest: MultiMedia, located I believe in the southwest US). And I think we are a small enough group that we could stand for a year catering to sequential or non-sequential _poly_media messages. Most users of interactive video will have a passing interest in _poly_media affairs. Finally, I have seen the NEC Cowboy. I have not played with it yet [the owner wouldn't let me! :-( ] It looks much like a standard vcr, with a few (!) extra connectors. More when I have had my hands on it, with some _real_ times on tape handling.
ittai@shemesh.GBA.NYU.EDU (Ittai Hershman) (11/16/90)
There really ought to be a newsgroup for general multimedia discussions. Given that comp.ivideodisc does not carry much traffic, perhaps we should broaden its scope and perhaps even go through the hassle of renaming it to comp.multimedia. -Ittai
clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Kathy Strong) (11/16/90)
In article <7201@shemesh.GBA.NYU.EDU> ittai@shemesh.GBA.NYU.EDU (Ittai Hershman) writes: >There really ought to be a newsgroup for general multimedia >discussions. Given that comp.ivideodisc does not carry much traffic, >perhaps we should broaden its scope and perhaps even go through the >hassle of renaming it to comp.multimedia. Yeah, I have always assumed that it's okay to talk about non-IVD multi- media type stuff here... I don't know how much trouble it would be to rename the group, but I suspect that broadening it to comp.multimedia would cause posting traffic to pick up at least a little. I'm for it. By the way, I've gotten several email replies to my re-posting the article from comp.sys.mac.hardware about the NEC Cowboy (very high speed VHS player)-- all saying, more or less, "Do you know anything about it?" No, I don't. Doesn't anyone who reads this group have one? :-) --K -- ........................................................................... : Kathy Strong : "Try our Hubble-Rita: just one shot, : : (Clouds moving slowly) : and everything's blurry" : : clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu : --El Arroyo : :..........................................................................:
lark@tivoli.UUCP (Lar Kaufman) (11/16/90)
In article <7201@shemesh.GBA.NYU.EDU> ittai@shemesh.GBA.NYU.EDU (Ittai Hershman) writes: >There really ought to be a newsgroup for general multimedia >discussions. Given that comp.ivideodisc does not carry much traffic, >perhaps we should broaden its scope and perhaps even go through the >hassle of renaming it to comp.multimedia. Yeah, not a bad idea... but multimedia isn't necessarily interactive, nor even non-sequential. Hypermedia isn't a good term either, having been devalued by the MacMarketing types "hyping" the nature of hypertext. I would suggest comp.polymedia. I coined the term "polymedia" several years ago when I was running a BBS with a discussion area for the group that became the Computer Video SIG of the Boston Computer Society. To understand the nuance of "polymedia": it stands in relation to "multimedia" in the way that "polyphonal" stands in relation to "multiphonal" (or polytonal/multitonal). Best of all, this is not a term that marketing types have already taken to mean whatever it is that their product happens to do. -lar -- --------- TIVOLI Systems, Inc. Lar Kaufman 512-454-3301 (voice) 512-329-2455 4503 Sinclair Avenue (fax) 512-329-2755 Austin, Texas 78756 USA (e) lark@tivoli.com
marc@porsche944.Eng.Sun.COM (Marc Schneider) (11/17/90)
The group already exsist as far as I know. It's call comp.mail.multi-media and they duplicate all the traffic of this newsgroup. It's also not very big (though I don't know why). I suspect this has something to do with the numerous MacIntosh related multi-media groups that are more specific in nature like hypercard and such... Personnaly I find the Mac groups very dull and to focused. Perhaps the answer would be to eliminate comp.ivideodisc and just change over to comp.mail.multi-media? -Marc Schnider Sun Microsystems ********************************************************************* * * * * Marc T. Schneider * "My veels, my god, I can't move my * * Sun Microsystems, Inc. * veels" - Doctor Von Scott * * 2550 Garcia Ave MS 21-01 * * * Mountain View, Ca 94043 * Ph:(415) 336-6747 Fax: (415) 968-3936 * * * * *********************************************************************
ittai@shemesh.GBA.NYU.EDU (Ittai Hershman) (11/18/90)
> The group already exsist as far as I know. It's call comp.mail.multi-media > and they duplicate all the traffic of this newsgroup. I disagree. Comp.mail.multi-media is a highly specialized group -- as multimedia mail must coexist with e-mail standards and transport issues (i.e. "multimedia" modifies "mail" in that group). The reason for the duplicate traffic is because there is no clear home for multimedia issues, so people like me crosspost to two or three groups. I would prefer to see a comp.multimedia which could be expanded in the future (if traffic warrants it) to things like: comp.multimedia.desktop, comp.multimedia.interactive, comp.multimedia.dvi, comp.multimedia.standards, etc. Finally, whether we like it or not the term "multimedia" has stuck to this stuff. I suggest its use in the title simply because it is the term which most people associate with the topic and is therefore most likely to attract those who are interested. Yes it is ambigous, but in a good way for our purposes. Comp.multimedia is short, sweet, and to the point. -Ittai