Posted by Gunther Gloop on 03/09/06 20:29

kim wrote:
>>> 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.
>

Bully for you. What has that to do with the price of eggs?


>> 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.
>

I'm one of many who stopped reading all magazines on a regular basis. There
are far easier and cheaper ways to get good views than wasting money on
prejudiced so-called "expert" advertising/supplier-led targetted
information.
So I agree with some of what you say, but again it has nothing to do with
anything mentioned previously here.



>> ...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?
>

This prompted me to search groups.google because I recall having a great
time reading your posts and watching you wriggle around as others pointed
how silly they were. You managed to duck around a lot of them in fairness.
Others were dodged by further even-more-silly non sequiters by you that
deflected attention to other directions.
From this one post I see you still adopt the same technique. Nice. :)

But, alas, I couldn't find one of the "better" ones in my brief search
(-does groups.google only go back as far as 1999?).
In your favour, I did find this post in 1999 where you deny claiming to have
invented laserdiscs, etc...
http://groups.google.com/group/uk.media.dvd/browse_frm/thread/adc3c02218257ef8/f8598a2b7a9a6e10?lnk=st&q=laserdisc+invent+kim+group%3Auk.media.dvd&rnum=3&hl=en#f8598a2b7a9a6e10

....I also recall an excellent website that someone did where he listed all
the occupations you had throughout your life. That was funny. :)


>> 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.
>

I ain't gonna rise to that bait. HD could well fail, but you predicted the
failure of just about every audio/video format ever released from what I can
see.
You're bound to be proven right at _some_ stage.

-Kevin.

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