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Posted by trollbusters on 09/30/71 11:36
On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 00:52:53 -0600, pjmathias@uaa.ak.edu wrote:
>The Death of DVD
>
>DVD will soon be a thing of the past. DVD was never a standard to be
>taken seriously, yet many in the industry believed it was the future.
>DVDs have been very disappointing in general. We should all go back
>to video tape, or better yet, 8mm film and the old fashioned portable
>movie screen. DVDs are an all around failure. Like the 8-track tape,
>DVD was a failure right from the start and should have never been
>released to the public. DVD will never be a viable format. DVD is so
>lacking in quality and user ability, there is no way they will ever be
>usable, as a permanent transmission of digital data. One thing that
>was never considered is that there's a limited amount of digital
>pixels available on earth, and they are quickly running out. It will
>soon be too costly to mine the earth for additional digital pixels
>which will cause far too much damage to the earth as a whole, and the
>pixels that are now being mined are of inferior quality compared to
>those which have been used in the past. Without these digital pixels,
>the DVD disc can no longer be manufactured. DVD is fading and will
>soon be a thing of the past. They only served the purpose of adding
>wealth to the pockets of those businesses who financially raped the
>masses during the initial release of the format, knowing well that the
>format would soon become unusable and fade out of favor. DVD will
>soon be history and their short life span will be little more than a
>mention in the history books of the electronics industry. It's only a
>short time before DVD will be gone from our lives forever.
>
>This article is reprinted with permission from the "World Electronics
>Association Reports"
>
>Professor Jerome Mathias - UAA
>
>On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 16:33:13 GMT, "Walter R." <wer25@example.com>
>wrote:
>
>>I invested all of 40 bucks in a DVD recorder. I hoped I would be able to
>>copy all kinds of good, old movies from netflix and the local public
>>libraries. Alas. this dream of a great movie library was not fulfilled.
>>
>>Practically all DVDs that I borrowed from the library, especially the
>>popular ones that I was interest in, were scratched and the movies barely
>>stumbled along. The disks from netflix also jerked quite a bit and made for
>>a less than exhilarating movie experience.
>>
>>I tried two different DVD players but the results were equally
>>disappointing. The old VHS tapes worked much better.
>>
>>Was my experience unique, or do other folks have the same problems? Short of
>>buying brand new movie DVDs, how can I get my hands on clean DVD disks?
>>
>>Happy New Year
TROLL
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