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Posted by kim on 03/09/06 19:06
"Gunther Gloop" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:47b34rFegb9oU1@individual.net...
> kim wrote:
>> "Gunther Gloop" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
>> news:4795prFegi9pU1@individual.net...
>>> Is it my newsreader or have there been just 7 posts made to
>>> uk.media.dvd all day (now 8)?
>>>
>>> That must be a record.
>>>
>>> ...I see Blu-Ray and HD-DVD is coming around April. It's a pity
>>> there is no obvious one to buy... apart from the LG dual-format
>>> player I heard about of course.
>>>
>>> Here's hoping that'll pick things up around here. ...I'm looking
>>> forward to Syriana on HD (released same time as the dvd -in May I
>>> think). ...Not that I'll have a HD player by then I'd guess.
>>
>> Yes, this is subject of huge interest to the <1% of readers with
>> HDMI-enabled plasma and LCD screens.
>>
>
> <1% of what readers? I would guess that a lot more than 1% of people here
> would already have or be willing to consider buying the right equipment if
> and when the software becomes available.
>
> The same ratio of people in the broader population probably had
> scart-enabled tellies back when dvd came out too.
My scart TV was already six years old before DVD came out.
> And who's to say that everyone who will have the equipment will be the
> only ones interested in hearing about it? And why should a lack of users
> make for less of a reason that this place will 'pick up a bit'? This place
> was never so exciting as it was in the early days of dvd.
I'm one of many who have cancelled our subscriptions to glossy video
magazines because we are sick of reading about a format which isn't
available yet and we couldn't even use if it was.
> ...And are you the Kim that invented laserdiscs and cds and so much more?
I've never made any such claim. My late grandfather "Frits" was however
chief engineer at Philips when the first LaserVision disc was demonstrated.
He wrote a book about it called "45 Years With Philips". For some reason it
was never a best seller?
>I seem to recall you predicting the imminent death of dvd back around 1998.
Correct, and then went on to make a small fortune from selling it. My
business partners can take all of the credit for that. I doubt very much I
will repeat the experience with HD but am looking forward to being proved
wrong.
(kim)
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