Re: 760cd impressions

["John H. Kim" <jokim@tuna.mit.edu>]

On Thu, 30 Nov 1995, Michael MacDonald wrote:

> I'm most stunned by the MPEG capability. IBM includes a demo disk with 
> the 760cd that has a 60-second trailer from the movie "True Lies". The 
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> MPEG-2, 4 MB/S version is spectacular. It's almost as good as watching a 
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> VHS copy of True Lies on the Thinkpad. Too bad it's only a minute long. 
> That single clip gobbles up 40 MB of CD-ROM space. There are two other 
                              ^^^^^
Is this 4Mbit/sec, or 4Mbyte/sec?

Ethernet is 10 Mbit/sec theoretical max.  It's successor is supposed to 
be 100 Mbit/sec.  Something tells me that "virtual" video rentals are not 
far away...
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