Twenty-four per second

1996/06/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Irudiak/Soinuak

In spite of the novelties highlighted in the field of multimedia, when we want to see a movie does not happen to us by the head start to see it in the screen of the PC of home, because today the quality of the images is still regrettable. This is the new challenge of the computer: getting us to watch the film as well as on the TV on the computer screen. And it seems that we begin to know the first fruits of effort.

One of the best ways to view mobile images on the PC screen is thanks to an excellent compression system. This system only saves and decodes the new information corresponding to each image. The novelty, however, has the problem that in addition to a PC of great power, it is necessary an extra hardware, so to see the film with relative ease it is necessary to shake the pocket.

Even without using extra hardware, images can be seen with quality. For example, the film we saved on a CD can be seen with the same compression system. This method allows to visualize images through the Windows program.

On the other hand, Microsoft has promised that for the month of June we will be able to watch the movies with the best quality. VHS quality images and stereo music. Minimum media is a minimum 90 mega PC and a program called ActiveMovie. The software will be responsible for decoding the images and will also issue twenty-four images per second. We chose the film and wait until June.