Simply put, it's as if we've been let into the candy store, but we cant' reach up to the higher shelf to get the candy we want. Our communications technology has been too slow. The Rogers announcement means that in the coming years it will be possible to retrieve full motion videofiles through the Internet. The Internet will change from being a place where we can retrieve text and pictures, to a place where we can also retrieve sounds and video. The second announcement came from Netscape Communications, the company that has developed the most popular World Wide Web navigator, Netscape.
Director is a program that lets people prepare computer files that contain sound, images and video.
With the right equipment, someone can load their home movies from their video camera into a Director file and put a few special effects on it. People traveling through the Web with this new version of Netscape will be able to click on the title of the video on your Web site, and watch the video immediately, right on their computer screens. It's not hard to see where the Internet is taking us. In my opinion what we are seeing in the Internet is the emergence of a completely new, high-speed information distribution system that will rival, and one day become, television. All rights reserved.