#New Member
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I am a new member to this forum. I am a professional photographer,
electronic imager and video producer for the State Department of Elementary
and Secondary Education in Missouri. If anyone has information regarding
development packages for CD-I, I would be interested in it.
FOr development issues you can also look in the Multi-Media forum. There is
a section on CD-I.
Chris,
Try the multimedia forum, they have a CDI section now thats quite active.
Chris,
I just finished a seminar on CD-I development at Philips Atlanta this
afternoon. One comment someone made there was that the CD-I section on the
Multimedia forum was very technically oriented, not application-oriented.
Maybe you could start a thread about applications there or here if that's
your interest? I'd be happy to throw in my 2 cents' worth. I'm quite
impressed with the capabilites and potential of CD-I, although I can see
some real limitations to it that may prevent my use of it for some of the
things I want to do.
Kathy <<– The One-Off CD Shop MidSouth, Inc.
Katherine:
It was me that said nobody talks about applications. It was great meeting
you in Atlanta. Every media has limitations, but it is the application of
the technology that will ultimatly determine its success. With full motion
video those applications become manyfold.
In your case it will be an incraese of business. Companies will be creating
disks from existing videos (there are many) changes them slighlty to be
interactive and having limited numbers of disks made for branch offices.
I just duplicated three sep[erate videos for one company (we produced them)
and made 75 copies each. Those videos could be on disk, with sh
short sales presentations created for each. The salesperson would then pick
the correct version and use only that, but still have the ability to show
all three if needed. That is a great slaes application!
You can name a business and the applications pour out of your brain. That
spells success to me.
Harry Hallman
Harry,
Thanks for the kind words. I also enjoyed talking to you. You have lots
of good ideas! You're right, applications are really the driver in this
industry, much as the technophiles hate to admit it (or fail to recognize
it). If the reason for doing a given task doesn't exist or isn't strong
enough, it won't get done for long. This technology has lots of solid
rationale behind it, but we have to show the people who will eventually pay
for it that it's worthwhile, then do what they want, not what we think
would be "really neat" but useless.
Kathy <<– The One-Off CD Shop MidSouth, Inc.
Yes indeed! Customer (end user) education is ve4ry much needed. I do
believe Philips is doing it the right way. First you get the producers
interested and then they spread the word to the end users, while you
(philkips) does some speading also.
Harry
Harry,
With the minor quibble that I'm not Philips, I have to applaud your
perception in agreeing with me <g>
Kathy