4. 1999 (in the US)
• DVD: 3 years old, -R/RW emerging
5. 1999 (in the US)
• DVD: 3 years old, -R/RW emerging
• HDTV/Digital TV: debuting, planned to full
switchover by 2003
6. 1999 (in the US)
• DVD: 3 years old, -R/RW emerging
• HDTV/Digital TV: debuting, planned to full
switchover by 2003
• Camcorders: expensive & self-contained
7. 1999 (in the US)
• DVD: 3 years old, -R/RW emerging
• HDTV/Digital TV: debuting, planned to full
switchover by 2003
• Camcorders: expensive & self-contained
• Online video: postage-stamp, high bandwidth
8. 1999 (in the US)
• DVD: 3 years old, -R/RW emerging
• HDTV/Digital TV: debuting, planned to full
switchover by 2003
• Camcorders: expensive & self-contained
• Online video: postage-stamp, high bandwidth
• New in 1999: DVRs, iMovie, Blackberry
9. 1999 (in the US)
• DVD: 3 years old, -R/RW emerging
• HDTV/Digital TV: debuting, planned to full
switchover by 2003
• Camcorders: expensive & self-contained
• Online video: postage-stamp, high bandwidth
• New in 1999: DVRs, iMovie, Blackberry
• Things that didn’t yet exist: iPod/iTunes,
YouTube, Hulu, Xbox/360, PS2/3, GameCube/
Wii, Blu-ray, video on mobile devices
Challenge for libraries and academics - how do you collect & archive streams?
Recent copyright hearings suggest importance of DRM to industry, laughable reactions from online users. Hard to imagine current system remaining viable for long.
Every discipline will engage video more than they do now - need to pre-educate youth with visual and audio literacies, vocabularies. More of a pedagogical than technological challenge.
Video & audio will be treated more like text is today - mapped by search and part of a broader online interactive environment
Again, challenges for academic libraries and workflows