HELP! * GREEN=global GREY=local Global HTML version of Foils prepared December 2,95
Foil 37 Video (Movie and News) on Demand (VOD) and the NII
From Technologies and Issues for Virtual University HPDC95/SC95 Tutorials -- August 1/Dec 4 1995. byGeoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
The simplest VOD applications treat InfoVision server as a "glorified" 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
"Browse" text or video indices to form customized "channels" 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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