From: John H. Kim (jokim_at_tuna.mit.edu)
Date: Sat Dec 09 1995 - 00:15:40 EST
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
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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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