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On Mon, 17 Apr 1995 CIIR@aol.com wrote:

> On April 27 you wrote:
> 
> >And on a completely different subject, today is Patriot's Day in 
> >Massachusetts, which means it's also Marathon Day.  To see an interesting 
> >example of live (or almost live) Web coverage, check out 
> >http://www.ecii.org/marathon.html.  There's no reason a newspaper 
> >couldn't do this (in fact, the Middlesex News has a site for finding 
Actually, it may not be long before newspapers pick their "photos" from 
videotape stored on the web in MHEG format.  They are already passing 
around JPEGs (resolution is sufficient for glossy mags).
> >entrants and looking up the final results), and it brings up the question 
> >of whether, in the new medium, the issue is not whether newspapers will be 
> >competing with each other, but with radio and TV stations. Couple the 

Actually, the computer will BE your radio and TV station.  Get your FM 
Sideband Receiver and "tune-in" to "56Kb/sec of text, pictures (GIF & 
JPEG), and audio.  Pick your channel, pick your web page, and watch 
"most" of the IP packets get routed to your radio.  You will get a few
over the "slow-link" but not many.  Your cable box can send you a 2 hour 
video in about 15 minutes (500 meg of free disk-space required).  You can 
even choose your advertizing, and when you want to see it.  Imagine 
freezing a frame and being able to ask "where can I get a car like that?"
(1956 Chevy) and getting a list of every 56 chevy including pictures and
"listen to that motor purr" and a walk-around the car, and a peek under 
the hood.  A complete inspection report nicely tagged for converting to
spreadsheets, and the price.  What order would you like them, highest 
quality, lowest price or best quality/price ratio?  If you don't like it,
return it to your local auto-broker franchize dealer.  [order button]

> >immediacy of broadcast with the background resources of print...
> >Adam Gaffin (stuck inside at work, rather than watching the race live, sigh)

> I have to assume that you mean this would be handy for an interested Marathon
> follower living in, say, Chicago, where there was no live coverage. Because
> while I too was stuck inside, it seems much easier to follow the race live on
> Channel 5 while I sit here and work (or on the radio should I need to run an
> errand) than to tie up my valuable PC screen and telephone line to get the
> step-by-step. 
Wouldn't you rather watch several differnt programs up at the top of your 
screen and "Zoom in" on one that catches your eye?  You can even "instant 
replay" the really pretty blonde sitting next to O.J. or the Cheerleader
at the College football game.  You will have to decide which of the 2000 
"live events" you want to watch.  Or you can search for a replay and 
request that.  If you don't chose something, the beer commercial comes on 
in the upper right corner (blind spot).  Your an alcoholic, just turn on 
the "kill beer" filter and you won't see them.  You want to see ads about 
family theme parks?  We'll put that in.  How about an assortment of ads 
from over 4000 industries?  You might even see "Crazy Ahmed" hawking
his "fresh oil - cheap".  You can even select a few dozen companies by 
ticker symbol. (I liked it so much I bought the company - or at least 300 
shares worth).

> The Middlesex News site makes sense, especially if it could post the
> finishing times of all 9000 runners, which the paper of record does not do. 
When you consider that an Exabyte Carousel can hold 280 Gigabytes (500 
movies-an entire video store) and a SCSI interface can handle 6 of these
tapes (Need a Hard-disk for caching) for 1.5 Terabytes you could watch 
television 9 hours/day for a year and never see the same frame twice.

And that's just what's available this WEEK!
Welcome to the Internet.

Rex Ballard
Director of Electronic Distribution
Standard & Poor's/McGraw-Hill


From rballard@cnj.digex.net Thu Apr 27 01:03:18 1995
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