VOLUME 1

No. 1 (Premier Issue, June 1991)
• Our Mission: To Map the Digital World
• Sony Software Enters the Fray
• Europe’s Rush to Analog HDTV
• PacBell’s New VPs Commit to Fiber Network and Services
• Microsoft forms Council to build awareness of MPC label and products
• Coming soon: Flat-panel TVs
• Sony’s Mini Disc
• I/O: ‘Watch out for Microsoft,’ says CD-ROM vendor

No. 2 (July 1991)
• Is CD-I already a flop?
• Digital Movies Are On the Way
• They Said It At Digital World
• FroxSystem Debuts at CES
• IBM’s 3.5-inch Optical Drive
• Bohrman Leaves ABC News InterActive
• Cable Sniffs at Going Digital
• Video Editors Cut a Broad Swath
• Ethernet Over Co-ax Cable
• They’re Off! Audio Standards
• A Primer On Digital Audio
• Readers Respond

No. 3 (August 1991)
• Apple and IBM’S Big (Ad)venture
• Digital Movies for the Masses
• A Deal That Smacks of Greed
• Stepping Into Virtual Reality
• Second-Generation Interactive
• MacroMind, Paracomp to Merge
• A New PC Product for MacroMind
• Verbum Interactive

No. 4 (September 1991)
• The Promise of New Media
• Interactive Markets: There Is No There, There (Yet)
• Will Microsoft Enter Consumer Market?
• Fast-Standards Making In the Digital World
• Digital F/X Establishes Service Bureaus
• Using Media to Teach Media
• Adobe Enters Video Market
• Fuji Forms Strategic Alliance with Zoran
• Steve Arnold Joins Gates at IHS
• Spaceship Warlock

No. 5 (October 1991)
• EuroPARC Explores ‘Media Spaces’
• The EVA Annotator
• U.S. Moves Into the Information Age
• Building the Open Road
• Apple and IBM Ink Multimedia Agreement
• IBM Launches New Multimedia Line
• Photo CD Spec Takes Shape
• MPC Makes Big New York Splash
• I/O

No. 6 (November 1991)
• Authorware Wants to Be Everywhere
• FCC Moves to Accelerate Digital Video & HDTV
• News: Apple to Ship CD-ROM Computer
• Hallmark Enters Cable Business
• Japanese Stick with Analog
• Write-Once CD Gains Momentum
• CD-I Comes to a Store Near You
• Columbus and Five Illuminated Books Debut
• A Facelift for Old Standards
• What’s the Cost to Produce a CD-I Title?
• Briefs
• Content
• I/O: Luskin Sets CD-I Record Straight

No. 7 (October 1991 ??? Please check date — December?)
• Making Presentations Presentable
• Cable Television At the Crossroads
• Don’t Baby the Bells
• The Chicken Lays the Egg
• Do You Believe In Magic?
• New Breed of Digital Artist
• Japan Rolls HDTV Programming
• Briefs
• Mediascape: Digitizing Sound and Images
• I/O: Readers Respond

No. 8 (January 1992)
• The Metaphoric Leap to Electronic Books
• Books and Consumer Players: A Couple of Fundamental Flaws
• Is Fractal Worth Holding Out For?
• News: ‘Soft” Video Alliance Forms
• NJ Bell v. Suburban Cablevision
• QuickTime Hits the Ground Running
• CableLabs On the Move
• Nintendo Takes Aim
• Mediascape: JPEG, Standard Compression for Still Images

No. 9 (January 1992 ??? Please check date)
• Electronic Publishing On ‘The Net’
• The Reading Room
• Apple Enters Consumer Market
• Winter CES Short On Thrills
• FCC Allocates Spectrum to Interactive Video, Data Services
• Mediascape: Video Compression, One Step Beyond
• I/O: Readers Respond

No. 10 (February 1992)
• Microsoft Enters the Consumer Fray
• Apple vs. Microsoft
• What Happened to the Interactive Videodisc?
• News: SMPTE Task Force Makes Strides
• Everybody’s Doin’ It
• Sony Unveils Bookman, At Last
• Designing TV for Interactivity
• HyperCard Drama
• HD Mac Is Dead
• I/O: Readers Respond

No. 11 (April 1992)
• Focus: Can Tandy Bring It On Home?
• F.B.I. to ‘Dumb Down’ Telecom Equipment
• Mediascape: The Staggering Scope of the Internet
• News: SimGraphics Does Live Animation
• The Convergence Emerges
• Good News for Authors?
• CableLabs Tunes In Computer Industry
• More Ways to Milk Old Copper Wire
• Briefs
• I/O: Readers Respond

No. 12 (May 1992)
• More Than Meets the Eye
• News
• MPEG-1 Samples Are Shipping
• Giving HDTV a Leg Up
• Iterated Systems On a Roll
• Everything But the Kitchen Sink
• Japan Pushes Multimedia Into Virtual Reality
• Is Shopping Better Than Sex?
• Computers and Human Interaction In Monterey
• Briefs
• I/O: Readers Respond

VOLUME 2

No. 1 (June 1992)
• Silicon Graphics Tastes the Future
• The Chairman Speaks
• Apple’s ‘Newton’ Is Here
• CES: Not Perfect, But Progressing
• Radius Launches VideoVision
• Time Warner Taps New Media Director
• Briefs
• I/O: Readers Respond

No. 2 (July 1992)
• Digital World ‘92: Introduction
• Erasing the Boundaries
• Andy Grove, Intel Corporation
• Richard Green, CableLabs
• Ron Sommer, Sony USA
• John Sculley, Apple Computer
• Lucie Fjeldstad, IBM
• Allee Willis, Songwriter, Artist, Filmmaker
• Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft Corp.
• Mike Liebhold, Apple Advanced Technology Group
• John Evans, News Corp.
• The Phone Companies’ Identity Crisis
• New Consumer Devices Are Coming
• The Great Television Debate
• Interactive TV Arrives
• Multimedia Computing
• Cable, Satellite and Cellular
• Rappin’ with Lily, Jane, Allee and Shelley
• New Media and Art
• Are We Having Fun Yet?
• Technology and Education
• Does ‘Digital’ Equal ‘Free’?
• Editor’s Note: Meeting At the Crux

No. 3 (August 1992)
• Riding the Tilt-A-Whirl
• ACOT Breaks the Education Mold
• What Does It Mean?
• Bellcore Invents New Camera
• Briefs
• I/O: Readers Respond

No. 4 (September 1992)
• Coming Attractions
• Maturing of the Compact Disc
• Kodak’s Photo CD Gamble
• The Gryphon Flies
• AFI-Apple Center Marks Its First Year
• Consumer Apples Roll In
• Franklin Offers DBS — Books, Not Broadcasts
• Catching the Digital Information Wave
• Muzak for the Video Age
• Briefs

No. 5 (October 1992)
• Turning Up the Heat on Titles
• Licensing for New Media
• Setting a New Precedent
• If Anybody Can, It’s Viacom
• Warner Licenses Masters for Multimedia
• Motorola Teams with In Focus
• Info Services are Popping
• Briefs
• I/O: Readers Respond

No. 6 (November 1992)
• IBM Outlines Multimedia Strategy
• IHS Looks Beyond the Home
• The Muddy Road to Desktop Video
• Stan Cornyn Leaves Warner New Media
• FCC Moves on PCS Spectrum
• Microsoft Offers Digital Video
• Stock Libraries Go Digital
• A Peek Inside the Magic Box
• Correction: Lots of Titles for Sony MMCD
• Briefs
• I/O: Readers Respond

No. 7 (December 1992)
• I/O: Readers Respond
• First Cities Gets Real
• First City Players Aren’t Fooling Around
• Limitations Define the Challenge
• Competition Really Works
• Cable Begins Digital Transmission
• ‘Golden Splice’ Links ISDN Nets
• Briefs

No. 8 (January 1993)
• We’ve Fallen — Can We Get Up?
• 3DO, After the Dust Settles
• Paramount Establishes Technology Group
• News from CES and Macworld
• Modular Windows Debuts
• What Does VIS Stand For?
• Apple Debuts Ergonomic Keyboard
• Consumer Devices Go Two Ways
• Briefs
• I/O: Readers Respond

No. 9 (February 1993)
• Canter Makes a MediaBand
• Choosing the Best New Media Distributor
• Blockbuster and IBM Join Forces
• From Mario to ‘Vactor’
• Macromedia Woos Publishers
• Colossal Goes Interactive
• IBM Reshuffles Multimedia
• Briefs
• I/O: Readers Respond

No. 10/11 (March/April 1993)
• General Magic Got Quite a Start
• Kaleida Launches Alliance
• The Madness of Roland
• An Interesting Legal Wrinkle
• What Driving to the Store Would Be Like if Operating Systems Ran Your Car
• Willis Picks CIES
• Fujitsu Ships Marty
• IBM Buys Its Way Into Hollywood
• Kodak Opens Up Photo CD
• Is Education the Multimedia ‘Killer App’?
• HDTV Madness Redux
• Briefs
• Anatomy of a Fad

No. 12 (May 1993)
• What Is Interactive TV?
• Ion Wants to Be First ‘Label’ for the 21st Century
• Changes at Sony Publishing
• Microsoft Thinks Small (Ha Ha)
• New Audio Format Sounds Great
• Report from Japan
• Briefs
• Culture Gap
• Digital World ‘93 Program Update

VOLUME 3

No. 1 (June 1993)
• The Inter-hyper-multi-ator
• Interactive TV, Part II: Fresh Start, or Status Quo?
• Hewlett-Packard Finds What Customers Really Want
• Security and Privacy In a Digital World
• Alliance Fever: A Snapshot In Time
• Distribution and the Art of Negotiation
• More Virtual Products than Reality at CES
• VR Is Dead, Long Live VR
• Frox Resurfaces
• Apple Pie Launches Publishing Group
• The HDTV Alliance
• TI Does It with Mirrors
• Photo CD Team Leaves Kodak
• Briefs

No. 2 (July 1993)
• ‘The Pace of Change Will Only Increase’
• ‘This Industry of Handheld Products Will Be Bigger than the PC Market’
• ‘Trying to Create a New Family of Businesses’
• ‘An Ice Age of Information that Will Kill a Few Dinosaurs’
• Place Your Bets and ‘Pay As You Go’
• ‘The Nightmare Could Be Reality Unless We Take Individual Responsibility’
• Full-Service Networks from Both the Cable Companies, Telcos?
• A Multimedia Standard to Bring About ‘Universal Compatibility’
• He Helped Create the Wave, Now He’s Catching It
• The Public Policy Panel
• What Will PDAs Be Good For?
• DW Launches the Interactive Media Festival
• Directors On Technology
• Projects and Prototypes
• Education Needs the New Media
• Media Company Strategies
• Data Security and Privacy
• Neat New Stuff
• The Interactive TV Debate
• Let’s Make a Deal
• Location-Based Entertainment
• The Creative Cafe
• Innovation, Content, Creation
• Content
• I/O: Thoughts from Digital World

No. 3 (August 1993)
• I/O: Readers Respond
• Opportunity Knocks
• A Brief Analysis of Bundling Deals
• It Certainly Is Rocket Science
• Virtual World Goes for the Story
• The AV Macs Arrive
• Community Networking in Colorado
• Compton’s Sold for $57 Million
• Use a Morph, Go to Jail
• Video in the 1990s
• SGI’s Indy Takes Aim at PC Market
• Briefs

No. 4 (September 1993)
• Telecom Industries in Turmoil
• Beyond the Tools Treadmill
• New Multimedia Deal Structures
• Todd Rundgren-Interactive
• Changes at First Cities
• The State of the Internet
• Media Giants Restructure
• Putnam New Media Makes Its Debut
• Briefs
• I/O: Readers Respond

No. 5 (October 1993)
• I/O: Readers Respond
• The Puzzling Purchase of Paramount
• Telcos Find New Routes
• Packaging: The Primary Sales Agent
• Bell Atlantic, TCI to Merge
• CableSoft Becomes CableChaos
• CD-R Writers Catch On
• PF Magic’s Digital Parlor Games
• Digital Pictures Opens Up
• Rules for PCS Allocation Announced
• Briefs

No. 6 (November 1993)
• I/O: Readers Respond
• Policy Becomes Critical
• Navigating a Detour
• The Host with the Most
• Multimedia in Europe
• Compton’s Patents Multimedia?
• Vendors Form New Media Centers
• Women On the Wire
• Wireless Access for Mobile Users
• In Search of the 7th Level
• Virtual Vegas
• Mitsushita Unveils Digital HDTV Camera

No. 7 (December 1993)
• PacBell Adopts Cable Scheme
• The Tortoise and the Hare
• Senator Kerrey’s Statement on Bell Atlantic-TCI Merger
• CD-ROM Rental in the Video Channel
• ATM: The Next Big Thing in Communications
• Cable Giants Form Joint Venture
• Full-service Network at Cable Show
• Cox Pairs with an RBOC
• Blockbuster Offers Rentals of CD-ROMs
• IMA Proposes Multimedia Standards
• Briefs

No. 8 (January 1994)
• Telcos Take the Lead
• Gore Outlines Communications Policy
• Distribution Planning: 1994
• Apple Debuts Online Service
• Bell Atlantic Unveils Video Services Plans
• Ziff-Davis Launches Network
• MNI Rolls Out MusicNet
• Briefs
• I/O: Readers Respond