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Posted by <normanstrong on 10/04/03 11:32
"Jeff Rife" <wevsr@nabs.net> wrote in message
news:MPG.1de7eee847541ffb98a128@news.nabs.net...
> (elrous0@pop.uky.edu) wrote in alt.video.dvd:
>> I still remember arguing in 1997 with
>> alt.video.laserdisc denizens who would claim "DVD's are too fragile to
>> rent"
>
> They *are* too fragile to rent...at least the way most people treat them.
> But, since they are now so cheap at wholesale, the loss due to pizza sauce
> and frisbee emulation isn't really a big deal.
Back in 1996, I could only remark that a DVD would hold so many words that a
typist typing 24 hours a day, at 80 words per minute, would need 22 years to
transcribe all the text that could be stored on one DVD. And it would
result in a stack of paper as tall as a 10 story building.
And we intended to put one movie on it!
Norm Strong
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