A primer on choosing the medium for multimedia: videodisc vs. videotape.

T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education) | February 1, 1993| | Copyright

The shiny silver disc exudes hightech. Sliding the videodisc into the player and calling up photos, text, graphics or full-motion video instantaneously convinces even the most skeptical of the power of interactive video. But the seductive power of the videodisc makes it easy to forget that the emergence of this "platter platform" as a de facto hardware standard has significant implications for development in the multimedia field.

The choice of the videodisc as the medium for multimedia not only determines the nature of multimedia, it also determines who will use ...

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