The new optical storage technology : including multimedia, CD-ROM, and optical drives

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION = 1
• Flopticals = 1
• True Optical Storage = 2
• CD-ROM = 3
• WORM Technology = 4
• Erasable Technology = 5
• CD Recordable = 6
• ICI Digital Paper = 6
• Optical Cards = 7
• What Does the Future Hold? = 7
• Multimedia = 8
• CHAPTER 1 WHY OPTICAL STORAGE? = 11
• Analog versus Digital = 11
• Another Example = 11
• Sounds = 13
• Digital Optical = 14
• The Optical Advantage = 15
• Archival Nature = 16
• Audit Trails = 17
• Publishing = 18
• CHAPTER 2 CD-ROM = 19
• Familiar Technology-Relation of CD-ROM to CD Audio = 20
• Capacity = 23
• Cost Effectiveness = 23
• Permanance = 24
• The Economics of Self-Publishing = 25
• Viruses and Other Data Threats = 27
• Access Time = 28
• Applications = 30
• CHAPTER 3 BUYING AND USIHG CD-ROM = 31
• Computer Hardware = 31
• CD-ROM Drives = 33
• CD-ROMs in Use = 37
• CD-ROM Research = 38
• CHAPTER 4 CD-ROM RELATED STANDARDS = 42
• Disadvantages of Standards = 43
• 3.5-lnch Media = 43
• Other Formal Standards = 44
• CD-ROM XA = 45
• BookMan, DiskMan. and Portable XA = 47
• Kodak Photo CD = 47
• Intel's DV-I = 50
• CD-I = 52
• CHAPTER 5 INTRODUCTION TO MULTIMEDIA = 53
• Multimedia PC(MPC) = 55
• MPC-I = 57
• Enchanced MPC System = 58
• Multimedia Sound = 61
• Sound Detaiks = 62
• Apple QuickTime = 63
• IBM Ultimedia = 63
• Kaleida = 64
• CDTV = 65
• CD-I = 66
• Tandy VIS(Video Information System) = 67
• Games = 67
• Room to Expand = 68
• Development Problems = 69
• Virtual Reality = 70
• CHAPTER 6 PHILIPS CD-I, THE IMAGINATION MACHINE = 72
• Hardware = 73
• In Use = 75
• Portable CD-I = 76
• Advances = 76
• Development Costs = 76
• CHAPTER 7 CD-ROM PUBLISHING = 78
• Basics = 79
• Data Acquistion = 80
• Editing Data = 81
• Authoring or Data Preparation = 81
• Pre-Mastering = 82
• Mastering = 83
• Replication = 84
• Packaging = 84
• Package Deals = 84
• Publishing Costs = 85
• CD Recorders = 88
• Small-Volume Production Costs = 88
• People Costs = 89
• CHAPTER 8 FURTHER PUBLISHING CONSIDERATIONS = 92
• Data Gathering = 92
• Hand Keying Data= 93
• Optical Character Recognition = 94
• Au OCR Example = 95
• Summary Points = 96
• Publishing Examples = 97
• Other Potential Uses = 99
• CHAPTER 9 WORM TECHNOLOGY = 102
• Different Sizes, Similar Devices = 104
• Details = 104
• How the WORM furns = 105
• Appropriate Uses = 107
• Inappropriate Uses = l08
• Best of Both Worlds : A Hybrid Device = 108
• CHAPTER 10 ERASABLE AND MULTIFUNCTION OPTICAL DRlVES = 110
• Magneto-Optical Technology = 113
• 3.5-Inch Magneto-Optical Drives = 117
• O-ROM = 118
• Phase-Change Technology = 119
• Dye Polymer = 120
• How Dye-Polymer Recording Works = 121
• Multifuncation Drives = 122
• CHAPTER 11 ICl DIGITAL PAPER = 127
• Cost Advantages = 128
• Safeguards = 129
• Mechanical Advantages = 129
• Costs = 131
• Smaller Applications = 132
• Summary = 133
• APPEHDIX Ⅰ OPTICAL STORAGE COMPARISON CHART = 135
• APPEHDIX Ⅱ SCIENCE ON CO-ROM, INCLUDING EXAMPLE AND RESOURCES = 139
• APPEHDIX Ⅲ PUBLIC, ACADEMIC, AND BUSINESS LIBRARY TITLES = 159
• APPEHDIX Ⅳ CONSUMER AND SMALL-BUSINESS CD-ROM TITLES = 175
• APPEHDIX Ⅴ MINIREVIEWS OF SELECTED CD-ROM TITLES = 187
• APPEHDIX Ⅵ CO-ROM DRIVE GUIDE = 200
• APPEHDIX Ⅶ A GUIDE TO COMPANIES WORKING IN CD-ROM = 218
• APPEHDIX Ⅷ RESOURCE LlST-CD-ROM PUBLISHER ADDRESSES = 232
• APPEHDIX Ⅸ PHILIPS CD-I IMAGINATION MACHINE TITLES AND DEVELOPERS = 264
• APPEHDIX Ⅹ CDTV MULTIMEDIA TITLES = 277
• APPEHDIX XI TANDY VIS TITLES = 281
• APPEHDIX XII WORM DRIVE GUIDE = 287
• APPEHDIX XIII ERASABLE DRIVE GUIDE = 302
• APPEHDIX XIV MULTIFUNCTION DRIVE GUIDE = 326
• APPEHDIX XV FLOPTICAL DRIVE GUIDE = 334
• GLOSSARY = 339
• INDEX = 347