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In many ways, the focus on educational markets and rich magazine content made sense: presumably the revenue model would be based on licensing per volume, and a
by niftich 8y ago
In many ways, the focus on educational markets and rich magazine content made sense: presumably the revenue model would be based on licensing per volume, and a subscription publication guarantees an ongoing flow of new copies to be sold.
This was also an established industry as opposed to video gaming, which was either nascent and amateur, or tightly controlled by established players making arcade cabinets and home consoles.
Was there a sense that you're abusing the spirit of the CD with the Green Book (the CD-i spec)?
- bsenftner 8y agoThe Green Book was just another standard, dictating the tolerances a CD player had to operate within in order to certify as being CD-I player capable. Where the Red Book dictated how data on disc in sectors had to be organized and played back, the Green Book did the same for interleaved files and real time media. There was no concept of "abuse", just different standards for different purposes. Any CD-I player was a CD-ROM player, but only Green Book complaint hardware could be called a CD-I player.
- bsenftner 8y agoI also remember the day Microsoft made Internet Explorer free - it was the first time a major piece of software was simply "free" - speculation among CD & subscription based media proponents was that was Bill Gates trying to kill CD based business models.