osborn@cs.utexas.edu (John Howard Osborn) (06/06/91)
Here is an extract from a recent posting in comp.sys.mac.announce, concerning the Apple announcement of QuickTime, its multimedia extension to the MacOS... > Photo Compressor > Apple is the first personal computer company to implement the >Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) compression scheme as a >standard part of system software. JPEG is a high-quality still >image compression scheme that offers compression ratios ranging >from 10:1 to 25:1 with no visible picture degradation. > > Animation Compressor [stuff deleted] > Video Compressor [stuff deleted] [It talks about how you'll be able to play motion video on a Color Macintosh with no additional hardware. It will be fast enough to play video from a cd-rom, even.] Comment One: JPEG is a standard part of NextStep 2.0, right? (I'm still waiting for my upgrade.) I find it interesting how Apple completely ignores NeXT computers. All Apple sales documentation talks about how much greater the Macintosh is over an IBM system. We, of course, know that NextStep is at least as big a step past MacOS. Comment Two: With NextDimension finally shipping (9 months after announcement) but without compression hardware, it seems obvious that system level support for motion video is sorely lacking. I hope NeXT is working on a solution. As long as we're wishing, a low-cost printer (or at least a TINY bit of help in the OS so that writing drivers for non-PS printers wasn't so darn tough) and a low-cost color card (using, perhaps, Mac color monitors) would be really nice. - -John H. Osborn -osborn@cs.utexas.edu
smithw@hamblin.math.byu.edu (Dr. William V. Smith) (06/06/91)
Well, its the first on the Macintosh.
>...Mac OS...
Is there an operating system?? I thought there was a tiny S.J. clone inside
sitting at a switchboard...
-Bill
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