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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | 2008 | The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright 2008 Columbia University Press. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

laser disc see videodisc .

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Videodisc goes to school. (new uses)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report; 6/16/1986; ; 700+ words ; Videodisc goes to school Hospitals use it to sharpen emergency...solve theoretical murders. They're all using a laser videodisc. The size of a 33-rpm record, the videodisc is related to the recording compact disc, but it combines...
Videodisc applications bring new promise to schools. (the latest developments in the fields of interactive video, CD-ROM, CD-V, and CD-I in education)
Magazine article from: T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education); 9/1/1988; ; 700+ words ; Videodisc Applications Bring New Promise to Schools Picture...prevalent in our schools today: the computer and the videodisc player. Using images taken from the Space Shuttle videodisc by Optical Data Corp. of Florham Park, N.J...
Study confirms teaching with videodisc beats textbook methods.
Magazine article from: T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education); 11/1/1988; 700+ words ; Study Confirms Teaching With Videodisc Beats Textbook Methods Frank Blatnik...great results. "Teaching with videodisc turned my kids into better students...presented by Blatnik and displayed by a videodisc system. The system included a videodisc...
Hypermedia: a progress report; Part 2: interactive videodisc.
Magazine article from: T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education); 9/1/1990; ; 700+ words ; ...Progress Report Part 2: Interactive Videodisc Last month's installment presented...hypermedia, the Level-III interactive videodisc. Along the way we will decode a number...illuminate, the technical details of videodisc formatting they represent. In addition...
'Dovetailing chunks': a technique for optimizing interactive videodisc design.
Magazine article from: T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education); 9/1/1988; ; 700+ words ; ...Chunks': A Technique for Optimizing Interactive Videodisc Design The cost of including an interactive videodisc in an instructional system can be high. The designer of the contents of the videodisc should therefore attempt to gain as much interactive...
HICKORY STICK GIVES WAY TO VIDEODISC
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 5/12/1991; 700+ words ; ...tech teaching tool, the interactive videodisc. At its lowest level of use, the laser-activated videodisc projects moving or still images and sound...individual frames or whole segments of the videodisc can be easily selected and strung together...
A primer on choosing the medium for multimedia: videodisc vs. videotape.
Magazine article from: T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education); 2/1/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...silver disc exudes hightech. Sliding the videodisc into the player and calling up photos...video. But the seductive power of the videodisc makes it easy to forget that the emergence...multimedia field. The choice of the videodisc as the medium for multimedia not only...
LASER VIDEODISC GIVES HIGH RESOLUTION.(Preview)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 8/30/1990; 700+ words ; ...Gustafson Associated Press The laser videodisc format is actually the big brother of...big quality advances. Today's laser videodisc players provide more than 400 lines of...do? Here's the lowdown on the laser videodisc format: Discs: They come in three sizes...
The Skeletal Explorer Videodisc Project. (Cleveland State University video disc atlas creation project) (Special Supplement: Zenith Data Systems)
Magazine article from: T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education); 2/1/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...experiments. Now, however, PC-controlled videodisc technology offers a costeffective means...Simulating the Worktable Creating such a videodisc atlas is a key component of the Skeletal Explorer Videodisc Project currently under way at CSU with...
Videodisc.
Magazine article from: School Arts; 2/1/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...ve probably seen the large collection of movies on videodisc available in stores; from classics like Orson Welles...like Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. What Is a Videodisc Videodisc is to images what a compact disc audio (CD) is to...

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Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories ...Manufacturing; 511210 Software Publishers Zoran Corporation develops integrated circuits and embedded software used in digital videodisc players, digital video recorders, digital cameras, and in high-definition television sets. The company also provides...
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Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories, Volume 85 ...group of software industry veterans including Honda Shing, Chinn Chin, and Steve Ro to develop programs for the new digital videodisc (DVD) format. In December the firm's first product, WinDVD, was introduced. The software program enabled Windows...

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