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Re: Getting Started with Interactive Videodiscs

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From: Mark Quattrocchi
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1988 18:26
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In article <367@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> naughton@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Patrick Naughton) writes:
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>[Don Jackson writes:]
>
>> 4) After I get a video disc player, and hack up some code to
>>    control it from my computer, what are some good discs to
>>    buy?  
>
>      Again, this is application specific.  I'd say for simple
>    hacking around, Any disk, (i.e. Mary Poppins..8-) would suffice.
>

For interactive use make sure you buy disks that are recorded in CAV mode.
This will allow maximum usage of special effects.
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From: mark@cygnet.CYGNETSYSTEMS (Mark Quattrocchi)
Newsgroups: comp.ivideodisc
Subject: Re: Getting Started with Interactive Videodiscs
Message-ID: <712@cygnet.CYGNETSYSTEMS>
Date: 9 Feb 88 18:26:04 GMT
References: <367@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
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Organization: Cygnet Systems -- Sunnyvale, CA
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