Digital Multi-Media: Now that I've Got it, where Do I Put it?

Continued increases in processor performance, remarkable advances in data compression technology, and the emerging high speed local and wide area network standards are all converging to rapidly facilitate the handling of video and film as data. Three relatively new applications that are leveraged on the success of these new technologies are video-on-demand, computer-based digital film special effects, and new image-based information services. Now that commercial availability of these new technologies is on the horizon, the issue of storage and access to the avalanche of digitized video and image data that is likely to assault us during the next few years needs to be addressed. This paper will explore these new applications and the advances that are being made in mass storage to accommodate these new requirements.

Published

1994-02

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/M00855

ISBN

978-1-61482-921-8