Andrew Burton wrote:
Define a CD with a real video clip. If you could watch
a video with *just* a CD I'd pay handsomely for that CD!
Like a VideoCD? (ducking)
What was the first computer to have any type of video?
I'm guessing that the Philips CDi, Panasonic/Goldstar 3DO and Amiga CD32 were some of
the first consoles to feature CD-based video.
Some Megadrive hackers (and former C64 programmers) hacked some carts to include (green)
monochrome video at the start. The awful game Rise Of The Robots on the SNES
(cartridge-based games console) featured video too, albeit a very small size (100x75?).
When I say video clips, I'm thinking 25 FPS (frames per second) or more.
25fps or faster is a tall order -- CDI might be the first console-thingy
to have it on a standardized basis, but a year earlier in 1991, I was
watching quarter-screen streaming 30fps video in the form of
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/sherlock-holmes-consulting-detective
That's the earliest 24+ fps example I can think of. Video for Windows
came out in 1992 and even the CDROM distribution of it only had 15fps
video clips.
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