re: Re: UKNM: mac cover discs

[ben]

ahhh... now I understand... so this DVD thing then is just a stillborn development of old 

fashioned technology? I guess that means that Apple have totally shot themselves in the foot 

with (what I stupidly thought) that fabulous option of DVD playing fullscreen movie 

entertainment on their latest machines... Poor fools, and just when they had started to use 

such pretty colours! 


This must mean that the absolute limit of New Media design is what can be downloaded over 

that trusty 28.8 and viewed through a browser... Therefore digital video (which I suppose is 

another ancient and therefore worthless part of New Media) must be viewed on positively 

prehistoric TV and video, roughly approximated through Real technologies, or waited an 

hour for with Quicktime or Mpeg? 


Sorry Stefan, but bog standard CDs are still a convenient way of carrying a stack of info 

without spending four days downloading the bloody stuff... When real (as distinct from 

promised/hinted at/divined from the gizzards of a lark) broadband/telco technologies allow 

me to download 650Mb for free at the drop of a hat, I'll believe that the CD on the cover of 

a mag is a waste of space.


As it is, the nice man from New Media Creative did a very good job of explaining to me why 

they don't use one. I believe him in their case, I don't believe that a whole New Medium has 

suddenly 'died'...


This interweb thing just isn't that great yet ;-)


Ben




 > ** Original Subject: Re: UKNM: mac cover discs

 >

** Original Sender: Stefan Magdalinski <stefanisness [dot] org>

 > ** Original Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 12:22:51 +0000


 > ** Original Message follows... 


 >

 >

bendeepend [dot] it wrote:

 >  > 

 >  > Really?

 >  > 

 >  > No forum for NM companies to show their wares? No free software for 

starters/students?

 >  > No interactive tutorials? I'm confused.

 >  > 

 >  > Where is the 'New Media' part of 'New Media Creative'?

 >  > 

 >  > Am I just being dense? Is this a joke?

 >  > 

 >  > Ben

 >  > 

 > 

 > 1. CD-roms were New Media about 10 years ago. That business is dead.

 > Wake Up!

 > 2. why burn a rubbish CD when you can print a URL? 

 > 

 > There's this interweb thing, it's great. 

 > 

 > -- 

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