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Posted by Roy L. Fuchs on 01/10/06 17:05
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:08:03 GMT, Justin <nospam@insightbb.com> Gave
us:
>NYC XYZ wrote on [10 Jan 2006 07:03:14 -0800]:
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>> Justin wrote:
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>>><SNIP>
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>>> Notice a pattern here about your level of wrongness?
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>> Are you still beating your wife?
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>Nope. I stopped that years ago.
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>> It was Digital Versatile Disc when it first came out -
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>Nope, wrong again. It was VIDEO disc when it came out, it was attempted
>to rename it to versatile but that failed.
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>DVD Technical Guide -Chapter 1 DVD Overview- [1.1 DVD History]
>"Pioneer began development of a new digital video disc format in 1991,
>with the goal of recording two or more hours of high-quality video on
>one disc, as a next-generation replacement for the LaserDisc."
>http://www.pioneer.co.jp/crdl/tech/dvd/1-e.html
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I believe it was done by the same folks that invented the MPEG-2
compression standard.
Those boys on the HDTV consortium. Perhaps even General Instrument.
He is definitely wrong though. Hell, he was probably in diapers at
the time.
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