Date   : Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:39:51 +0100
From   : darren.grant@... (Darren Grant)
Subject: Domesday

Sadly the reason that domesday1986.com has disappeared is that Adrian Pearce
the person responsible for it has recently died.

With regard to the suggestion that the Domesday data be stored on a flash
card. The problem is that the LaserDisc contains both analogue video frames
and the text data encoded on what would normally be the audio tracks. As
Joel said the LV Player contains a genlock with the LV generating the video
and the BBC overlaying text.

The question is why would you want to replace the LaserDisc, presumably
because the drives are so unreliable and the disc's are not that common. So
you would have to essentially emulate or create a replacement for the LV-Rom
drive. Assuming the video frames were digitised and held on flash memory,
DVD or a hard disk that would require some sort of computer that could
generate video frames from the digital data. So building a box to replace
the LV-ROM drive would mean you may as well use an emulator to emulate the
BBC as well and run the whole thing on PC hardware, I can't see the
advantage of running it on a BBC.

Darren