as4e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Andrew Paul Stern) (04/15/89)
I just purchased "Empire of the Sun" on disc, and highly recommend it. It is letterboxed, with digital sound and dolby surround. I thought it was the best movie of 1987, and didn't rent it on tape so I could see it for the first time at home on disc. I was very impressed. The movie is over 2 and a half hours long, and ALSO includes "The China Odyssey", a 50 minute documentary directed by Martin Sheen on the making of the movie. 3 and a half hours of video on 2 discs.. what a buy. -Drew
kdb@lts.UUCP (Kurt D. Baumann) (04/16/89)
In article <wYFebIy00VE182e1MZ@andrew.cmu.edu> as4e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Andrew Paul Stern) writes: >I just purchased "Empire of the Sun" on disc, and highly recommend it. >It is letterboxed, with digital sound and dolby surround. > >I thought it was the best movie of 1987, and didn't rent it on tape so I could see it for the first time at home on disc. I was very impressed. > >The movie is over 2 and a half hours long, and ALSO includes "The China Odyssey", a 50 minute documentary directed by Martin Sheen on the making of the movie. > >3 and a half hours of video on 2 discs.. what a buy. > >-Drew I am happy for you, but what does this have to do with Interactive Video Disc? Unless, this is one of those discs that teach film techniique interactivly? Seriously, why is it that there were a ton of people interested in having a group started for the discussion of interactive videodisc and how it pertained to training. And now no one puts anything in here? So does anyone know of any new authoring systems or languages that allow easier use of IVD? Has any seen any good things done with HyperCard and Videodisc? I hear that Apple has some very intereting programs out. Anyone seen any? Kurt -- Kurt Baumann ...!uunet!lts!kdb / lts!kdb@uunet.uu.net InterCon, 11732 Bowman Green Drive, Reston, VA 22090 -- "?" -- Unknown
jls@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Jerome Schneider) (04/17/89)
[... Deletion of querry about what movies have to do with IVD...] Thanks, we needed that. (humor) It would seem that IVD should be propogating to non-dedicated training systems in the future. Does anyone know of video-overlay systems that allow I.V. under such windowing systems as X or the Miceysoft PM? Are things like video "windows" imbedded in graphics windows available? -- Jerome Schneider UUCP: killer.DALLAS.TX.US!jls (guest account) Aspen Technology Group Ft. Collins, CO Voice: (303) 484-8466
hubey@pilot.njin.net (Hubey) (04/17/89)
There is a new Interactive Authoring system called VIVA (I think) that
is Amiga based. I haven't seen it but based on the video capabilities of
the AMiga, I would say it's worth looking into.
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hubey@apollo.montclair.edu warsh@athena.mit.edu (Russell Williams) (04/17/89)
In article <7867@killer.Dallas.TX.US> jls@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Jerome Schneider) writes: > Does anyone know of video-overlay systems that >allow I.V. under such windowing systems as X or the Miceysoft PM? Are >things like video "windows" imbedded in graphics windows available? >-- >Jerome Schneider UUCP: killer.DALLAS.TX.US!jls (guest account) >Aspen Technology Group Ft. Collins, CO Voice: (303) 484-8466 Here at Project Athena there are a number of projects underway that use a system with the X Window System version 11 on VAXstation II's with a Parallax graphics/video display board. The video capabilities available from the X server are somewhat primitive, taking the form of an extension to the core X11 protocol. Display of incoming video may be turned on on any X window by using an Xlib request. The video display options allow live video of a fixed size (640x482) pixels, still video of the same size (doesn't go away when the video source changes, but the last video frame digitized remains on screen until a X expose event happens), and a scaled mode, which allows a still portion of the incoming video frame to be displayed in a window of arbitrary size, with automatic scaling as desired. For people using the X Toolkit, there are several versions of a video widget floating around that handles these modes and X exposes automatically. Straight XLib programmers have to do it the hard way. With X11, you can also draw on top of the video windows in all video modes, although I don't know of any projects around here that use that capability. The whole setup is still a bit flakey, unfortunately, but getting better all the time. Unstable input video signals tend to become badly garbled when put into a window, so a direct feed from the videodisc player is best, although live cable TV works well. (We distribute images from a single videodisc player source using the campus cable network) -Russell Williams warsh@athena.mit.edu [ @mitvma.bitnet ] Boston Videodisc Project Rotch Visual Collection, MIT
jls@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Jerome Schneider) (04/21/89)
My earlier comment about video running in windows brought up questions about other PC hardware. Currently, we are experimenting with a new product from New Media Graphics that adds NTSC/PAL video real-time digitizing and overlay with a standard VGA system. THe Digitized video can be "manipulated" in size and display quadrant, along with some other special effects. This seems to be the most "advanced" product of it's type. The card has an on-board 80186 processor along with a megapixel of video capture memory. (Thats from memory, and not exact, but you get the picture). The prices seem reasonable, and are in the same range as EGA/CGA overlay systems. I would expect new software that adds windowing functions to be available in the future. The on-board processor should help support repainting and resizing windows. There is not a PS/2 Microchannel version that I know of, but maybe soon. The company is at: 780 Boston Road Bilerica, MA 01821-5925 (617 663-0666 As usual, the std disclaimer. I don't have any affiliation with NMG except as a customer using their products. -- Jerome Schneider UUCP: killer.DALLAS.TX.US!jls (guest account) Aspen Technology Group Ft. Collins, CO Voice: (303) 484-8466