Digital Video for the Desktop

Introduction

Less than twenty years ago, when the first desktop PC‘s were unveiled before an unsuspecting public, few would have predicted that these inconsequential-looking machines would mark the beginning of the next major revolution in the development of mankind. Just as the machines of the Industrial Revolution irrevocably altered the lives of our forefathers, so too has the PC and its associated information technology already begun to change the way we learn, the way we work, the way we communicate and even the way we play.

Today, the PC is everywhere - in offices, factories, schools, shops, hospitals, hotels, airports and, increasingly, in our homes. The technology has fuelled its own meteoric pace, as each new innovative application ...