What is Renaissance 2.0?

Renaissance 2.0 is composed of five areas:

Kino is like an electronic Nickelodeon. Here you find short Quicktime movies that range from videogame previews to complex art-video projects. You can also learn about their origins and send email to their creators. To play a movie, click on the highlighted image.

Retina features eight new still images weekly. Photographs, digital art, painting, collage, and other visual arts appear here. From the top page of Retina, you can learn about the artists and access email/web links to them. To view a graphic, click on the highlighted image.

Soundz lets you sample sound files (.aiff and .moov format) and meet their creators. Soundz includes music, spoken word, sound design, sound effects, and everything else created for the ear. To hear a sound file, click on the highlighted image.

Serial brings comics and serial writing online, along with information about their creators. To view one of the features in Serial, click on the highlighted image.

NetSoup samples curious and interesting excerpts from the net. Expect a little of everything, from flame wars to thoughtful discourse. And remember, if you can't stand the heat, switch over to Prodigy.

Why won't movies/sounds play on my computer?

You must have QuickTime and a movie player application (such as Simple Player or Movie Player on the Macintosh) or, for sounds, a sound player application installed on your machine. Some browsers ship players with their software; others are available from public ftp sites (see Subscriber Services for links to these sites). Once you've installed a player, go into the preferences in your browser and tell it which application to use to view QuickTime movies and/or play sound files.

Unfortunately, QuickTime does not run under the SunOS. If you are using a Sun and want to view movies, you'll have to switch to a computer that supports QuickTime.

If the player application won't launch, you can still download movies and sound files and manually play them outside of the browser. If the browser won't launch because there isn't enough memory, try quitting other applications and then downloading the files again. If the player still won't work, it may be corrupted, and you'll want to reinstall it or switch to a different application.

Some movies and sound files are quite large and may take a long time to download, depending on the speed of your connection. Some browsers allow you to interrupt and cancel a download (see the help section of your browsers for details).