Date   : Sun, 14 Jan 2007 11:58:46 -0600
From   : julesrichardsonuk@... (Jules Richardson)
Subject: Domesday Presenter software

Ian Wolstenholme wrote:
> Is this a floppy disc or a laserdisc?

It's a floppy - "Presenter" was part of the "Domesday Display" slideshow 
software suite from BBC Enterprises.

Presenter allows you to browse the Domesday media and select photos, maps and 
text for inclusion in slides - these slides are saved to a local floppy disc 
along with the replay software so that they could be shown even on a non-AIV 
machine.

Captions is the sister program in the suite - it can caption LV content and 
play it back, but unlike Presenter it works directly with a LV disc. In other 
words, it'll work with any LV disk (providing it's CAV, apparently), but 
requires physical access to the LV at playback (sounds like it just makes use 
of some form of 'seek' function within the player to display images, and the 
genlock portion to overlay the caption content).

The software comes in a nice little folder complete with manuals for the 
applications, but also with six "Resource booklets" for different school 
subject areas. I'll be scanning them at some point I expect, but the resource 
booklets are around 70 pages each, so I'm parking that one for a rainy day 
(although the core software docs aren't that big - maybe 40 pages in total - 
so I might do those sooner rather than later)

cheers

Jules