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These will be another source if videodisc comes into the classroom.

Videodisc systems can have a small computer built into the video player.

You cannot record onto the videodisc machines currently on the market.

Quite simply, the same three that are currently determining the use of videodiscs.

A videodisc has the capacity to store both still and moving pictures.

A typical system would be a videodisc player operating under computer control.

The reproduction of both pictures and sound is superior on videodisc.

Experimental work is going on in the production of educational software for videodisc.

It was a stark contrast with the commercial failure of the videodisc.

With videodisc the machine can respond to your answer by showing an appropriate picture.

"Does this mean you no longer want videodisc records of our beheadings?"

"He was just about to tell me what was on the videodisc you brought back from Jerusalem."

Although not a digital medium, the videodisc was the starting point for modern multimedia development.

Of course, you will have to want interactive video quite badly because videodiscs and their players are costly.

At the time, the only technology available to store large numbers of high quality images was the analogue videodisc.

The first efforts to bring videodisc to the consumer market flopped badly.

The videodisc will also have considerable potential in teaching at both University and School levels.

The compact disc looks physically like a smaller version of the videodisc.

It is important that we do not altogether ignore videodiscs aimed at the consumer market.

The combination with videodisc players is particularly interesting because of the ways random access can be exploited.

But the bigger reason is the availability of cheap, pirated videodiscs.

Such hybrids will be able to play both CDs and videodiscs.

He was about to add the videodisc device when flashlight beams cut through the dusty air.

Each videodisc used a visual narrative to present an authentic, realistic everyday problem.

They also found a simple method to extend the analog videodisc standard with digital sound.

The number of schools that have videodisk players is small.

Digital videodisk standards have been under development for several years.

The videodisks, which take about six months to produce, are not played from beginning to end like a film.

About half the nation's public school districts have some videodisks, industry experts say.

According to industry estimates, nearly seven million videodisks were sold in 1990.

For example, they are rivals in the digital videodisk business.

What will make the difference, he says, is wider sale of videodisk players.

But she emphasized that videodisks were like any other teaching tool.

He later took part in the development of videodisk technology, particularly for its use in education.

The only way to take full advantage of these sets' capabilities is with videodisks.

It will include messages from high school students throughout the nation and other information using digital videodisks.

He sees the videodisk as the best instrument for such a liaison.

Much interest is focused on videodisk players these days.

Each videodisk has two audio tracks that are used separately much of the time.

Similarly high image and sound quality is attained by videodisk players at much lower cost.

He said videodisks did little more than repackage and transmit information to students.

Pioneer was one of the first companies to introduce a laser videodisk player in 1980.

But digital videodisk players will be able to play existing compact disks.

Because of their relatively rapid production time, videodisks can get material quickly to teachers for use in discussing these changes.

It is exhibited on a system consisting of three videodisk players controlled by a computer.

Even companies that have so far kept to the sidelines in regard to videodisks are now entering the field.

Every competent store has either a special test pattern generator or a videodisk to do this.

To give your video system a comparable lift, you might want to invest in a videodisk player.

California and Kentucky are considering expanded uses of videodisks in the classroom.

The digital videodisk player uses technology similar to that of a compact disk.