For an xmas gift I got a 1992 magazine off Ebay w/ a fantastic interview w/ John, and this part in particular made me drool w/ the knowledge of what *might* have been-- he said:
"Talking about future projects, there will be an inter-reactive CD-ROM which we're putting together. Basically it's a CD which you insert in your IBM player on an Apple Mac, and you have 80 tracks plus all the videos. And being reactive you can pick up a track, put the mouse on it, access "Personnel", click again on say, Stevie, and get the history of Stevie, pictures of Stevie, Stevie's videos by themselves-- as much information as that CD will hold. We're trying to package that with Sony, using our anthology as the first example of the technology. The package comprises a CD player, our anthology, and the software to run it, whereas before you needed all sorts of hardware to run videos on computer. You just load it as you would a program, stick it on your power drive and that's it-- full video capability."
oh it depresses me that they had tossed around that idea all those years ago!!! yet still...nothing. So why can't they now do all that same stuff but obviously in the simpler format of a DVD? Why in 1992 did they think the market would be there for it, but no one seems to give a hoot about that now?
-Lis