Eric, Alfredo, Larry, and maybe others have been conversing:
 
[.....SNIP.....]
>  And for Larry's satellite TV comments, I can't wait to pick and choose
>digital TV shows from the Internet when I want to watch them on my
schedule.
>Can IMAGE store a digital TV show?  Don't laugh, I'm serious.
 
An hour's worth or digital TV or etc. directly in
Image/SQL ???.....  Can't see that we would ever
want to....   HOWEVER:   A high-performance way
to *index* from Image/SQL into various VL BLOBS:
Absolutely.  Seems to me that would open up a
whole range of new possibilities........  Somewhere
on the SIGIMAGE list after we get integral B-trees,
I believe.
 
:-)
Ken Sletten