Date   : Fri, 01 Mar 2002 11:58:15 +0000
From   : Paul Wheatley <p.r.wheatley@...>
Subject: Re: BBC Domesday on the telly

> > This is slow, but a connection to the SCSI interface will hopfeully be
> better
> > *:-)
> >
> 
> It has a SCSI interface?!

Yes. Normal video disc players don't.

> Still I would have thought the speed of the player
> was more likely to be a bottleneck than the speed of the controlling
> interface?

Probably not.

> Does anybody remember much of what was actually on these discs,
> as in stills, video etc., as I was all of about 9 at the time?

All this has been discussed before on the list, but to cut to the chase, try
Andy Finney's summary:

http://www.atsf.co.uk/dottext/domesday.html

> > > Otherwise could we not write something to
> > > step through and play the full contents of the disc and use a PC video
> > > digitiser card to capture the result?
> >
> > Thats our plan, subject to sorting legal things.
> >
> > > Then either re-format the results into
> > > either HTML or something similar,
> >
> > Its a little more complicated than that, simply becuase Domesday is a
> *big*
> > resource. We are looking into doing some migration owrk however.
> >
> 
> Well it sounds intriguing anyway - keep us informed.

Certainly will, and have been doing for over a year now *:-)

Paul
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