RE: VideoCD

[Raymond Pugh <rpugh@arcadia.win-uk.net>]

>Title       : Kate Bush - The Whole Story '94
>Type        : VideoCD
>Item Number : 7243 4912882 8
>Supplier    : (c) 1994 Novercia under exclusive lience to EMI
>              Records Ltd. A Picture Music International
>              Release. Printed in UK.
>
>Approx. total running time 80 minutes
>2 discs
>PAL/NTSC/SECAM Compatable
>Note: The discs will NOT play on a standard audio CD player
>      The discs can only be used on players with Video CD /
>      MPEG capability. [This means CDi, 3DO, Amiga CD32, PC's
>      & Macs with MPEG ability]

Here's some info from the April/May issue of CD-ROM Today magazine
published here in the UK.  It's from an article about Video CD
which is described as a 5" disk capable of holding up to 65 minutes
of video using MPEG-1 compression.  If this sound's like what
you've got the bad news is.....

   "There is also a limited number of machines that you can play
Video CD disks on.  A Philips CD-i player fitted with their Digital
Video Cartridge is one option; the Commodore Amiga CD32 games console
fitted with their Digital Video Cartridge is another; and a PC fitted
with the ReelMagic digital video board is the only other choice....."

They go on to say that the ReelMagic card will soon be available
for Macs as well.

Ray 

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