Databases were introduced to remove redundancy from conventional file
systems and encourage sharing, which resulted in update anomalies when
information was modified. With presentations (movies) sharing clips (
sequence of frames), continuous display becomes challenging as well. C
ontinuous display requires the system to retrieve the information with
no disruptions or delays (hiccups) once a display is initiated. To en
sure a continuous display using a multi-disk hardware platform, a vide
o object is striped into subobjects. The system enforces a regular sch
edule on retrieval of each subobject by controlling the placement of t
he subobjects across the disks. Now if different presentations share s
ubobjects, each presentation will enforce its own restrictions on the
placement of the data, resulting in an irregular schedule. We investig
ate approaches to render a schedule regular for two alternative displa
y paradigms: Demand and Data driven.