Posted by Kimba W. Lion on 04/06/06 17:18

On 6 Apr 2006 08:39:56 -0700, "rjn" <email4rjn@yahoo.com> wrote:

>HD-DVD v. BR may be more like CED v. LaserDisc,
>with a DIVX frosting to sour the tast.
>
>LD "won", but what it won was the videophile market (1%).
>Barely enough for life support.

You have a point, and I've been wondering along those lines, too.

There are other variables besides consumer acceptance. CED beat LD in
terms of sales, but still did not meet RCA's projections, and so they
killed it while sales were still growing.

Will the industry kill the goose that lays golden eggs (DVD) just so they
can push the market into the new formats' DRM? Or will they bail out early
if sales don't meet their projections?




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