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To: sally duros who wrote (23709)	3/29/1999 12:17:00 PM
From: yofal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213176

I see this as a BIG problem in the future as DVDs achieve dominance in the home entertainment market. I don't understand how the people who first sold AVID editing system bundled on a home computer have overlooked this. Do you know whether they have formed an alliance with any of the DVD producers, distributors etc. to develop a format that works on their MAC architecture? The reluctance out there is probably more due to the ongoing standards issues, as DVD-ROM and writable formats are currently incompatible and there even still a couple of formats in the consumer market. And given how rapidly they develop new storage solutions and data densities (witness the advances made with blue wavelength lasers) no one wants to get stuck with a underadopted technology. Not that I wouldn't want to watch movies on my desktop... emmell

To: sally duros who wrote (23709)	3/30/1999 1:56:00 PM
From: Zen Dollar Round	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213176

Thanks for the reply, Steve. How do you see this. I see this as a BIG problem in the future as DVDs achieve dominance in the home entertainment market. This also ignores the many owners of simple DVD players, which cannot use these features either. I wasn't aware that any movie titles had DVD-ROM content only useable with a computer. That seems shortsighted indeed.

To: sally duros who wrote (23709)	3/30/1999 6:47:00 PM
From: Bill Ulrich	Respond to of 213176

It's very much like the Enhanced CD/E-CD/CD+/CD-Plus idea from four years ago; audio content for you car/home stereo, and audio+multimedia content for your computer. The case you note of Pleasantville is probably a matter of how the additional content was authored, rather than a strict Mac/Wintel DVD technology issue. In other words, they may have authored in a tool which made a Mac port more difficult. In the case of Enhanced CD/E-CD/CD+/CD-Plus, the additional content was often a Director app which made cross-platform development relatively easy. There's no reason why supplemental DVD content can't be done that way (within the technical boundaries of the authoring tool)&#151it just wasn't (apparently) in the case you describe. Enhanced CE/E-CD/CD+/CD-Plus was never a big success anyway. So perhaps this situation is minor issue.