Abstract
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA) is now available in two formats—the traditional printed issue and the CD-ROM. However, CD-ROMs are in the early process of being displaced by the newer, more powerful DVDs which feature a capacity of approximately 2.8 GB per disk side rather than the 650 MB standard for each CD-ROM. CD-ROMs, however, will not immediately be rendered obsolete by the use of a current DVD player since the latter is backward compatible for CD-ROM playback. However, even in the CD-ROM format, a technical journal can take on new aspects of multimedia, which were hitherto unavailable or impracticable in printed media. The greatly enhanced capacity of the DVD disk provides even greater opportunities for extended expositions. Animation scenes, photographs, extended databases which would not have otherwise been included in a printed article, dynamic plots, sound effects, virtual reality scenes which permit one to ‘‘visit’’ laboratory sites or ‘‘witness’’ the topical phenomena, and even computer programs and entire reproductions of cited references can be incorporated in an article slated for publication on the new multimedia disks or on future storage devices.
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