P3D Re: Stereo World on ONE CD?

[Brian Reynolds <reynolds@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dan Shelley wrote:
> 
> So, how about a straw poll to gather info for the NSA about this:
> 
> How many people out there would be interested in digital copies of past
> issues? Is tehre a market for these that would justify the effort to
> create them?
> 

Would non-members be able to buy this CD?

For me to be really interested the CD would have to be more than scans
of magazine pages.  The National Geographic set sounded nice, but know
that someone has mentinoed that it is just a collection of scanned
pages I wouldn't take one as a freebie, let alone spend $100 on it.

Acrobat looks nice, but the readers (and/or the distillers) have bugs
that can make the information useless (e.g., the B&H catalog has
problems with blank background blocks being rendered on top of the
text and graphics).

Plain ASCII or HTML (perhaps with indicies by subject and author)
would be great.  Of course this involves a lot more effort and would
probably have to cost a lot more.  The images accompanying the
articles should be scanned individually (probably from the page of the
magazine though as I realize getting the originals would be too
difficult).

> And, a straw poll for me:
> 
> How many people might be interested in a future CD of several hundred of
> Bill Walton's best presented in multiple formats with a bunch of history
> about the views?
> 

I would definitely be interested in this CD.

> Comments?
> 

So long as the format options include anaglyph and side by side
parallel viewing I would be interested in a CD-ROM (providing the
subject is also interesting).  Without these options I probably
wouldn't be interested (no matter what the subject matter).

Before anyone says JPS remember that not everyone uses a platform that
JPS readers are available on (or will ever be available on).

By the way, has there been any effort made to get JPS included as part
of the JPEG standard?  If JPS were part of the JPEG standard there
would be more chance for the non Wintel platforms being able to
support JPS (through the freely available IJPEG libraries).

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Brian Reynolds                  | "Humans explore the Universe with five
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