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1115.0. "Sub-code info " by SWSNOD::SALLOWAY (Jeux Sans Frontiers) Mon Mar 14 1988 20:08

    Rolling Stone reports that the new Talking Heads album, "Naked",
    is the first to incorporate a sub-code embedded in the digital
    output.  It contains lyrics, musicians and instrumentation, and
    other videotext-like information about the album.  The CD also has
    one bonus track over the vinyl.
    
    While my player has a weird sub-code jack on the back, I have not
    seen any decoders or players with a built-in decoder.  I have heard
    an outboard decoder would run about $100.
    
    If anyone has seen the subcode output of the Heads Cd, I'd be
    interested to hear what it's all about.  Also, info on sub-code
    decoders, which I guess would hook right into a TV or VCR.
    
    -Brian
    
    
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1115.1CD + CDROM !VOLGA::D_MONTGOMERYI'm only sleeping...Tue Mar 15 1988 06:5419
    wow - sounds like they're incorporating the CDROM technology [text,
    data] with the commercial CD technology [audio] to come up with
    the best of both!
    
    From the other direction (so to speak), one of the major encyclopedia
    companies offers the set on CDROM, and the code includes:
    
    text
    graphics
    photographs
    audio
    
    for instance, if you look up "John F. Kennedy", you get a menu from
    which to choose a short biography, quotes, photographs, or some
    parts of his famous speeches in *audio*!
    
    The opportunities for this technology are mind-boggling!

    -Monty-   
1115.2QUARK::LIONELWe all live in a yellow subroutineTue Mar 15 1988 08:474
    I know of no commercially available subcode decoders.  I am surprised
    that they would even bother.  "CD-Interactive" seems to be the new
    technology aimed at this market.
    					Steve
1115.3SARAH::P_DAVISPeter DavisTue Mar 15 1988 15:443
    I think the Firesign Theatre's disc, "Eat or Be Eaten" also included
    some video graphics stored in the subcode on the disc.  It was not
    a tremendous success.
1115.4Eat or Be Eaten- Classic Firesign!CTHULU::YERAZUNISHiding from the Turing PoliceSun Mar 20 1988 16:0310
    "Trememdous Success"?  If you meant "did it sell a lot of subcode
    readers, you're right.
    	
    However, "Eat or Be Eaten" is in my Top Three Firesign performances
    list- and far better than that rather recent "Fighting Clowns".
    	
    Now, if only they'd put "I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus" onto
    CD.
    	
    
1115.5QUARK::LIONELWe all live in a yellow subroutineMon Mar 21 1988 10:157
    What I meant was that the version with the subcode graphics never
    got released.  I understand from a review in Digital Audio that it
    was a lot of fun.  I was not passing judgement on the modified
    non-graphics version that eventually came out (I have heard some of
    it - I prefer their older stuff).
    
    				Steve