On 10/11/2007 02:27, Jim Leonard wrote:
> 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.
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
The earliest I can think of is Acorn's Replay software, which could do
quarter-screen 25fps in 1988 or 1989 on an Acorn Archimedes machine. A
little before that, the same machines were playing short animated
ray-traced scenes at 25fps, sometimes full-frame -- but that's not quite
the same thing as video.
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