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Will Video Surfing Become Reality?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the not-on-my-modem dept.

alinv writes "Australia's CSIRO has developed a multi-media browsing tool callled CMWeb, which makes surfing audio and video content as esy as text (view a screenshot here). The tool, called Continuous Media Web (CMWeb), enables user to activate a link within a video or audio file,and be taken to a related clip in another file, and then return to the original or follow further links into other subject areas, in much the same way they currently do with Web pages."

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  1. No.... by benito27uk · · Score: 5, Funny

    Surely the video isn't big enough to stand on!

    1. Re:No.... by Talez · · Score: 2, Funny

      Considering the draconian download limits placed on high speed connections in Australia, it'll probably be as big as a postage stamp.

  2. hang-10 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Will Video Surfing Become Reality?

    It already is, I call it "changing the channel."

  3. I can see it already by TCM · · Score: 5, Funny

    *listens to some ambient*

    *totally chilled*

    yelling voice: OH AND BTW, IF YOU LIKE THIS TRACK, CLICK HERE FOR MORE!

    *gaaah*

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  4. wanna bet?. by ConsoleDeamon · · Score: 5, Funny

    You and me, and a vcr pulled by a powerboat.

  5. Audio games! by AtariAmarok · · Score: 4, Funny

    This reminds me of a friend years ago who came up to me and said "I've got a great idea. We know about video games. How about audio games? We should invent those".

    I've not heard from him since, but I am pretty safe to assume he is not a multi-billion dollar audiogame magnate at this time: no-one is.

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    1. Re:Audio games! by jandrese · · Score: 2, Funny

      I remember those "Audiogames". The ones that come out around Halloween time and have ads on TV. Call mumble-mumble and play a game, only $2.99 a minute, get your parent's permission, etc... There is a picture of what looks like an 8 bit NES game in the background with a character going between levels of some side scroller and a voice over about fighting ghosts and stuff. I don't know if they're still around or not, it sounded pretty lame to me (and I was 8 at the time).

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  6. Re:Joke bait by The+J+Kid · · Score: 1, Funny
    This post has made an illigal exception.

    Please adjust your Steve Jobs Reality Destortion Field.
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  7. Re:Not going to kick off fast. by Zork+the+Almighty · · Score: 2, Funny

    you seem to imply that i am some sort of idiot.
    yet here i am, posting on slashdot.

    Welcome to the giant idiot crapfest.

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  8. Starship Troopers.. by adamofgreyskull · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Would you like to know more?"

  9. Linear vs non-linear story telling by EdmondDantes · · Score: 2, Funny

    Text does not have to be read from start to finish to provide a satisfactory result to the viewer - that's why it's so good on the web. Video is intended to be viewed from start to finish - I can't imagine clicking the back button to finish watching Austin Powers while I just finished watching the original to get the joke reference. Ok, maybe once or twice but more than that and you'll spend countless hours infront of the TV going from video to video and never really acc.....oh wait.....nevermind.

  10. Easy! by krumms · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...makes surfing audio and video content as esy as text

    Which obviously won't be easy enough for the average /. ed ;)

  11. Re:User-Interface? by popeyethesailor · · Score: 4, Funny

    Remember "Punch the monkey and get a free penis!".

    This will only be harder ;)

  12. As Cypher once said... by billybob2001 · · Score: 2, Funny

    All I see now is blonde, brunette, redhead.

    Just like product placement is now only sub-consciously perceived by most viewers.

    Take /. back in your time machine to the average person in the seventies or eighties (yeah, and a browser and the h/w to view it on...) and see if they can read it through the distraction of the hyperlinks.

    Ok, so maybe the "news" will be up-to date when you show it to them, but that wasn't the point...

  13. This is a GREAT idea! by brakk · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, that TV thing on my desk would be likeâ¦. my TV thing in my entertainment center! And my MOUSE would be likeâ¦â¦ my REMOTE CONTROL! This is a GREAT advancement for our civilization!

  14. Re:User-Interface? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Damn, I've been doing it wrong all these years.

    I was wondering why I haven't received my free monkey yet.

  15. Caps? by ic3p1ck · · Score: 2, Funny

    How ironic, this coming from Australia - the land of the internet cap!

  16. quicktime vr,,, by Vaughn+Anderson · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bah... this is just regurgitated quicktime VR, which is hypercard with nice video...

    Is this really any different from a web page with the links on the side instead of in the video?

    Bob: Hey, hit stop! Rewind, rewind, click there, click there!

    Fred: I'm tryin, I'm tryin dernit!

    Bob: No, no, not there, forward forward, No, stop, backup, backup, click now click now before the link disappears in the next scene! AGGGH!

    (*Dislaimer: this is a joke, I didn't even read the article*)