Going Hybrid: The Online/CD-ROM Connection.

Stansberry, Domenic

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ERIC Number: EJ505394

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1995

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Going Hybrid: The Online/CD-ROM Connection.

Stansberry, Domenic

NewMedia, v5 n6 p34-35,37-38,40 Jun 1995

Discusses the integration of CD-ROMs with online service producers. Highlights include publishing; LucasFilm's Habitat project; programs through Prodigy, CompuServe, America Online, and Philips Media; hybrid links to Internet sites; multiplayer games; virtual chat with avatars; and problems, including CD-ROM's slowness, download time, storage space, and client/server software. (LRW)

Descriptors: Computer Games, Computer Networks, Computer Software, Downloading, Electronic Publishing, Integrated Services, Online Systems, Online Vendors, Optical Data Disks, Problems

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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