Date   : Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:08:56 +0000 (GMT)
From   : info@... (Sprow)
Subject: BBC Micro CD-ROM?

In article <C5DFEE7A.2B4B4%darren.grant@...>,
   Darren Grant <darren.grant@...> wrote:
> On 13/03/2009 08:53, "Sprow" <info@...> wrote:

> > 
> > You're right, a DVD-ROM driver would be more useful.
> > Hey - you could put the Domesday content onto a DVD and do away with 
> > those
> > huge laser disc things (assuming the video track could be extracted and
> > reencoded as an MPEG or something useful),
>
> Except that the Domesday system is a hybrid in that the pictures are
> analogue video frames so you could read the text data the images would not
> be displayed from a DVD-ROM drive.

Hence my phrase "assuming the video track could be extracted",
Sprow.