Date   : Fri, 01 Mar 2002 21:57:11 GMT
From   : pete@... (Pete Turnbull)
Subject: Re: BBC Domesday on the telly

On Mar 1, 11:48, Dave Gorst wrote:

> It has a SCSI interface?! Still I would have thought the speed of the
player
> was more likely to be a bottleneck than the speed of the controlling
> interface? Does anybody remember much of what was actually on these
discs,
> as in stills, video etc., as I was all of about 9 at the time?

There are a lot of single frames intended for use as stills, some short
videoclips, and a *lot* of data.  There's a huge amount of Ordnance Survey
mapping data on the disks, for example.  The data is read using the SCSI
bus, and that's also used to control the player when displaying stills and
video.  IIRC three of the sides are CAV and one is CLV (or maybe I have
that back to front?) and three sides are data/stills with some clips, the
fourth is all video.  I still have my disks but sadly no Master AV nor the
laserdisc player.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York