At last, a movie fits on a CD-ROM disk

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The Voyager Co has developed a video compression technology that allows motion pictures to be compressed onto a CD-ROM disk that can run on an Apple Macintosh with a CD-ROM drive and Quicktime video software. The company's first offering is A Hard Day's Night, the 1964 black-and-white movie starring the Beatles. The quality is still crude; the picture window is credit-card size and the sound is monaural rather than stereo. The technology, however, represents a breakthrough. CD-ROM disks can hold about 600Mbytes of information, which is too little for video. Each video frame converted into digital form will take up about 1Mbyte of disk space; a second of full-motion video requires about 30Mbyte of space. With the compression technology, Voyager captured every other frame from the movie, compressed the data tightly and run it in a small window on screen.

Usage, Innovations, Column, Voyager Co., Movies, Product introduction, Data compression, CD-ROM, CD-ROM disks, New Technique, Motion Pictures, Video Editing

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A big gap between C.E.O.'s and information officers

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Sanjay Kumar, executive VP of operations for Computer Associates International Inc, says that there is a big gap between chief executive officers (CEOs) and chief information officers (CIOs) in most companies. Most CEOs do not allow CIOs to participate in business decision-making while CIOs do not invite CEOs in technology strategizing. Computer Associates sponsored a technology retreat for about 40 CEOs, partly because the company needs to convey its strategy effectively. Kumar says his company's mainframe software business is growing though it now only accounts for 75 percent of company sales. He says that the future lies in robust client/server environments, with the mainframe functioning as the ultimate repository and warehouse of information.

Officials and employees, Management, Interview, Business planning, Chief executive officers, Kumar, Sanjay (American chief executive officer), Chief information officers, Executive, Computer Associates International Inc. Micro Products Div.

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