We chose Cheetah drives because we needed data to come up as quickly as possible. This would have been impossible without such high-speed equipment. The mosaic was created by first searching through all of the available video frames for the 10,000 images best-suited to fill the mosaic tiles. Then, the 10 Gbytes of selected images were read and built into a mosaic, which was transmitted to the Java client. All this was accomplished in subsecond response time.
Visitors can view the component video frames in greater and greater detail.
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.