Now Of course, during the actual conference, the 10,000-rpm Cheetah drives were put to the true test. That same information was also posted directly onto the Internet through the Progressive Networks' RealMedia server. Because of the Cheetah's capabilities, this cutting-edge technology was accomplished at a reasonable price. Today, with the advent of Cheetah drives and DPS' Hollywood card, you can have full 10-bit nonlinear uncompressed D1 for no more than the price of a car. The drives' collective formatted data-transfer rates allowed DPS' Hollywood video disk recorder to operate at peak efficiency.
Cheetahs are what Hollywood needs.
Hardware included four Dual Pentium Pros, two DEC Alpha 600 As and a 4-processor DEC Alpha server. Inspired by the photomosaic prints created by Rob Silvers at MIT's Media Lab, software designers Munkeby and David Bird wrote a sophisticated program to create the mosaic. Users can see individually digitized frames that make up the mosaic. Like any successful puzzle or mosaic, the sum is made up of many individual pieces. No one can doubt, however, that the Cheetah was the glue that held this mosaic together.