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Was CD video compressed? I thought it existed at the same time as DVD but cheaper.
That's Video CD. It existed before DVD but survived alongside it (mainly in Asia) as a cheaper alternative.
Microscopes can see video on a laserdisc
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Re: Microscopes can see video on a laserdisc
#82Is there a version that doesn't require watching a video please? This would be 10x faster and easier as a text blob
You can ask your human to watch the video and write the text blob for you.
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Ugh, I'm pretty sure it's Big CED deceptively here to muddy the waters and obfuscate superior LaserDisc Technology. Perhaps flag the post so the moderators can see it and make sure we root Big CED out of these forums and out of our lives for good.
I'm making placards now. Meet you on the corner of Pioneer and 78th st.
Re: Microscopes can see video on a laserdisc
#85Is there a version that doesn't require watching a video please? This would be 10x faster and easier as a text blob
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#86Now I wonder if something similar is possible with the magnetic fields on VHS tape
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#88As I understand it, this only works with still images that scroll vertically. Each revolution is one frame, so if you compare the data paths next to each other, they don't make up an image but the same single line of several consecutive frames. Scrolling a still image makes the same line on the screen cover a different part of the image each frame, so you can sort of make out what the original image looked like. The…
The title is a bit misleading. LaserDiscs are digital but CEDs are analog.
Very different technologies.
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No, with digital, you need encoding. How can you even compare binary with embedded images.
> How can you even compare binary with embedded images. How are the images encoded?
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#90Not nearly as cool, but I was able to show a colleague the letters in a raster image section of a pdf using xxd by varying the output width
Without you showing them, they might never see this kind of stuff.