Don Larsson asked about DVD... >I have been hearing off and on for some time that a new digital video system >is in the works. It supposedly will be the size of a standard CD and >still contain the material that now takes several laserdisks to include >(even non-CAV format). Thought industry press has said that several Japanese companies have DVD players (first called Digital Video Disk, and now Digital Versatile Disk) from what I have read recently it is on temporary hold. The people I talked to said that some players would be equipped to play old style laserdisks as well as the new fromat which should look something like CD ROMs. I know of no software available but have seen prototype pictures of players. MacUser this month has an article about it at http://www.zdnet.com/macuser/onlinecol/gorey21.html There it gives the details about storage size and so forth. One wonders what the future holds here. There are about 9,000 titles on Laserdisk so I don't think it can comptete immediately but the future looks bright since you could have very high quality and several films on one disk. Cheers, Bert ___________________________________________________________ BERT DEIVERT Film Studies / Media Studies University of Karlstad,SWEDEN Voice: 46-54-83 81 06 E-Mail: [log in to unmask] WWW: http://www.hks.se/~bertd/bertd.html ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]