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DVD for School Libraries?

Jacso, Peter – MultiMedia Schools, 1998

Digital Video Disc (DVD), now known as digital versatile disc, is a high-capacity storage medium. This article examines and evaluates DVD-Video, for storing digitized movies, and DVD-ROM for storing computer-readable text, graphics, audio, and video files. Describes and reviews selected DVD-Video and DVD-ROM titles and discusses potential hardware…

Descriptors: Computer Software Reviews, Elementary Secondary Education, Equipment Evaluation, Information Storage

The Hardware Helper: Taking the Guesswork out of Multimedia Systems.

Jacso, Peter – School Library Journal, 1996

A computer expert describes two stand-alone, multimedia CD-ROM computer systems suitable for school and public libraries: a budget version for less than $2000 and a power version for about $3000. Recommends specific personal computer models, monitors, operating systems, processors, RAM (random access memory), hard drives, video subsystems, CD-ROM…

Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Computer Peripherals, Computer Selection, Computer Storage Devices