Questions tagged [multimedia]
For questions regarding presentation of more than one medium. e.g. sound and vision
10 questions
12 votes
6 answers
4k views
When were videos first commonly downloaded on the Internet?
When were videos first commonly downloaded on the Internet? It must have been in the late 90s. What was the initial resolution and frame rate? What was the size of a 10 second video? Was there one ...
- 4,703
8 votes
1 answer
843 views
Can you name this 386/486 era computer case?
Escort Computer is a Local PC brand in Turkey. They had popular Escort Multimedia series in late 90's. Prominent with distinctive case design. They were using off the shelf OEM hardware. I believe, ...
- 3,118
8 votes
2 answers
2k views
Media formats in Windows for Workgroups 3.11 [closed]
While installing Windows for Workgroups 3.11 on a 386 PC with 2 MB of RAM, I was a bit surprised that the installation diskettes are not bootable and MS-DOS needs to be installed beforehand. Was this ...
- 2,003
26 votes
2 answers
4k views
What innovation helped CD-ROM speeds increase exponentially?
Early CD-ROM drives were considered both expensive and slow (in comparison to HDDs). This limited their adoption until around 1992, when both the prices fell and the speeds increased dramatically. In ...
- 62.1k
9 votes
6 answers
5k views
How did we use to have these high quality 256 color images? [closed]
If I take a 24 bit image and reduce it to 8 bits with save as of any simple drawing, the result is terrible; as any modern computer user would know. It was the same in the late 90s when I had access ...
- 2,381
5 votes
3 answers
604 views
Definitive list of music bands/groups that included computer programs on their analogue audio music physical media releases (LPs, singles)
Is there a definitive list of music pop/rock bands/groups that included computer programs as part of their physical analogue audio music releases? (vinyl LPs, EPs, singles) etc? For this to be ...
- 941
5 votes
2 answers
1k views
Could early nineties PCs access raw CD bitstream?
In the early nineties, as discussed in What specific technical advance(s) allowed PCs to play "Full-screen full-motion" video? it became commonplace for PC games to use the storage capacity ...
- 65.3k
5 votes
3 answers
671 views
Looking for an IBM multimedia demo from the 80s/90s about "Ulysses"
I am trying to identify / find an online copy of a multimedia technology demonstration video. Timeframe: late 1980s / early 90s? Source: IBM. Format: VHS. The content of this video was a computer ...
- 3,926
17 votes
5 answers
2k views
What specific technical advance(s) allowed PCs to play "Full-screen full-motion" video?
In the early 1990s, the new buzzword for PCs was "Multimedia", and the gold standard for multimedia performance usually talked about was "full-screen full-motion" video playback. Many will remember ...
- 62.1k
7 votes
1 answer
459 views
Old multimedia: Monochrome Macintosh / Laserdisc player
Back in about the mid-1980s, there was a period of time when "multimedia encyclopedia" and training resources were being made for schools, for the early monochrome-only Macintosh that tied it to a ...
- 3,757