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    09-May-90  02:36:47
Sb: CD-I Based Museum!
Fm: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227
To: all

from NewsGrid:

WASHINGTON (MAY 8) BUSINESS WIRE - Capitol Disc Interactive and Philips
Mexicana, S.A. de C.V., Tuesday announced the development of a Compact
Disc-Interactive (CD-I) system for multimedia point-of-information  displays in
the Museo Amparo Puebla, a museum dedicated to indigenous  Mexican history
being constructed in Puebla, Mexico.
   Museo Amparo, the first museum in the world to incorporate Compact
Disc-Interactive technology in its design, will utilize twenty-eight CD-I
kiosks throughout the building.  Each disc will contain language tracks in
Spanish, English, French and Japanese.
   As Amparo visitors move from room to room, they will plug headsets into the
kiosks and, through Philips 20" touch screen television monitors, they can
learn at their own pace about the historic context of the display room's
treasures.  A moving "time-line" will provide the foundation for understanding
the age and context of the displayed objects through comparisons with
developments in other ancient civilizations.
   Through CD-I, games and tasks of ancient civilizations will involve the
viewers in the ancient cultures.