Re: "The Whole Story" CD-ROM

[figsk8tn@ix.netcom.com (Sklar Toy )]

In <m0tZljx-000G2AC@zoodle.robin.de> uli@zoodle.robin.de (Ulrich
Grepel) writes: 
>
>Hi Stephane!
>
>you wrote:
>> Right here in France, in my favourite music store, I saw " The Whole
Story" in
>> CD-ROM version, including the songs of the previous release, plus 5
or 6 songs
>> from albums since '86, plus multimedia material. Can someone give me
more
>> details about this CD ?
>
>Yes, of course! ;-)
>
>This CD is actually 2 CDs. No, it is actually 2 Video-CDs. A Video-CD
is
>a special sort of CD-I that contains videos in MPEG format playable on
>
>- CD-I players with MPEG-capability
>- PCs with special software/hardware
>
>I've listened/watched it once with a PC (Pentium-90 with software
decoder)
>in our office. The sound quality was way below what I would accept,
the
>picture quality wasn't too bad. Better than the audio at least. I
don't
>know (but would like to know) if hardware assisted decoding provides
>one with better quality, especially sound quality.
>
>The Multimedia stuff in addition to the videos on this CD is a control
>program (read: graphical user interface) for the Video CDs, plus a
>(very short ;-) ) discography which displays all the album covers but
>nothing else. Of course there's also a credits page, but I'd say that
>belongs to the player program and isn't really contents.
>
>Bye,
>
>Uli
>
>
>--
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16."
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Where does one in the United States buy The Whole Story CD Rom?  In
store or mail order?  Thanks.