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In article <1992Jul22.012805.10774@e2big.mko.dec.com>  
morris@DrSpok.mko.dec.com (morris) writes:
> 
> In article <1992Jul16.211036.942@microsoft.com>, matts@microsoft.com  
(Matt Saettler) writes:
> |>The standard file format for storing multimedia objects is RIFF.  This
> |>format was developed by IBM and Microsoft ...
> 
> You didn't really mean to say THE standard format did you?  You probably
> meant something more along the lines of 'a possible standard for the
> storage of multimedia objects in a homogeneous Microsoft Windows 
> environment.'  That's certainly a large market, but there are probably
> still a few people around who are interested in multimedia on  
Macintoshes
> or Amigas.  Perhaps they are even interested in being able to exchange
> multimedia data across multiple platforms.  I know I'd sure like to see
> that be possible.

Well that's what MHEG is supposed to be for.  Though CCITT's timeframe 
for MHEG's completion probably will not be soon enough to prevent the
proliferation of a de facto standard like Microsoft's.  Also,
since its so hard to get hold of CCITT documents (i.e. they
are not avaiable on the net in a usable form), I hold about as much 
hope for MHEG as I do OSI :-)

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