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Foil 6 Some (New) Web Technologies in a Nutshell - IV

From Possible Roles of new Web technologies in the NHSE NHSE Review -- 25 January 96. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE

Digital Video and Audio. This will enable collaboration and dissemination of fixed assets (audio/video clips) stored in multi-media databases
  • RealAudio commercial product uses wavelet 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
Note these are typically streaming and not "batch" approachs. Current default Web downloads video to client before playing and this approach cannot scale!
Digital video works well over ISDN (128 kbits) but for full screen needs about .5 megabits per second even with wavelets
This will be CNN/Network digital delivery technology for future infinite cable channel world



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