Digital Video and Audio. This will enable collaboration and dissemination of fixed assets (audio/video clips) stored in multi-media databases or of information encoded in real-time.
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RealAudio commercial product uses wavelet-like compression and delivers AM quality audio over 28.8Kbaud lines. Therefore works on Internet and can combine with images (or Interactive Java animations) for Web Conferencing and Consulting
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Note these are typically streaming and not "batch" approachs. Current default Web downloads video to client before playing and this approach cannot scale!
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Can use traditional (relational) databases to store metadata and text with which to index video.
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Digital video works well over ISDN (128 kbits) but for full screen needs about .5 megabits per second even with wavelets
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This will be CNN/Network digital delivery technology for future infinite cable channel world
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(Prepared for SC96)
