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In article <1992Jul26.153332.8827@bcrka451.bnr.ca> custeng1@bcrka333.bnr.ca (Wayne McFall) writes:
>As I was leafing through the May issue of Byte magazine recently,
>I saw an add for a board which allowed television signals to be
>displayed on a window. I mentioned to a nearby friend that I 
>thought it was pretty interesting, and he abruptly responded
>"Why... I serves no practical purpose."

>Well, my [limited] knowledge of multimedia tells me otherwise. 
>What are some of these apparantly non-existant "practical purposes?"

Some advantages to video in a window:
1. You don't have to spend money or deskspace for a second monitor.
2. The information on the screen seems visually more integrated, which
   is important for many hypermedia applications.
3. Relationships between the video and other information the computer is
   displaying are easier to draw. (Arrows, descriptive text, I've even
   seen a person talking and pointing to things on the computer screen
   from within the video window).

Some disadvantages:
1. You have to spend money for a special video card (may still be less
   than a second monitor).
2. You don't have the spatial resolution of full-screen video. While many
   video cards have a full-screen option, you would then of course hide
   everything else on the screen. Some applications I've seen allow you
   to click on the picture to toggle between full-screen and window only.

Bill Alves