Obsolecence (Was RE: OT: PC Motherboard with a vacuum tube)

From: Doc Shipley <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
Date: Mon Sep 9 10:07:01 2002

On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Feldman, Robert wrote:

> What I object to is being "forced" to switch, to have to buy new hardware
> when what I have is still functional and functioning. We can keep our old

  I gotta say that "functional" is a relative term here. I won't argue
that "the producers" are pushing HARD for an inherently copy-unfriendly
format. However, if DVD weren't so very much easier to use, store,
ship, maintain, and produce -- let alone harder to ruin -- users,
vendors and rental shops would not be flocking to DVD. VHS cassettes &
players have always been a big, huge, clunky, temperamental-and-easily-
borked, slow-to-set-up PITA. DVD are none of those things.

  Notice that nowhere did I mention video quality. Napster proved
conclusively that nobody cares. ;)
  Seriously. Superior video is not driving the market at all.

        Doc
Received on Mon Sep 09 2002 - 10:07:01 BST