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Foil 47 Video (Movie and News) on Demand (VOD) and the NII

From REU Presentation -- An Overview of NPAC REU Seminar -- June 8,95. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE

The simplest VOD applications treat InfoVision server as a ÒglorifiedÓ VCR with a huge stock of readily accessible prerecorded tapes
  • Movies -- With granularities of around one hour
  • Videotaped lectures -- and which can be restarted, rewound etc.
Interactive VOD will have granularity of order a minute
  • ÒBrowseÓ text or video indices to form customized ÒchannelsÓ such as:
    • CNN Newsroom and NewSource
    • Reuters Wire Service feeds from around the world
  • These services provide video news footage of several hours per day with a textual index
    • Store several years of video footage on InfoVision servers
    • Browse textual indices e.g. for all material on Syracuse
    • Develop customized class material


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