Advances in Full Motion Video
Had a bit of a flashback today after playing about on Joost for a while. Thought originally that the playback from Joost was a bit rubbish, but then remembered that I’d ‘tweaked’ the WRT54G settings in Tavistock and was running with 54mb-only transmissions. Pft.
Anyway, after resetting to defaults things improved somewhat. Sadly, however, the current content is not really for me - Tiff Needel and The World’s Strongest Man don’t really cut it for mental stimulation I’m afraid. That said, the idea is really rather quite neat, as is the Joost interface.
Anyway, way back in the mists of time I used to own a Commodore CDTV. Yes, honestly, one of those things. I learnt pretty quickly that is was a pile of pup and I should have just stuck with my maxed-out A500 - but you live and learn I suppose.
One highlight of the CDTV, however, was the advent of Full Motion Video from CD-ROM ever-so slightly ahead of the Sega CD32 as I recall. Commodore introduced a format known as CDXL which provided 1/4 screen FMV at a pretty reasonable framerate - all from a Motorola 68000 (ok, with a bit of help from the custom chipset in the Amiga). Who needs a Macbook Pro eh?
