Posted by Matthew L. Martin on 01/15/67 11:44

Roy L. Fuchs wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Apr 2006 13:18:32 -0400, Kimba W. Lion <kimbawlion@aol.com>
> Gave us:
>
>> 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.
>
> The "videophile" market segment is much larger than 1% these days.
>> There are other variables besides consumer acceptance. CED beat LD in
>> terms of sales,
>
> Bullshit. CED was so bad that it never even hit the market. Show
> me an E-bay auction of a CED player.
>

You are completely uninformed on the topic.

<http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?sofocus=bs&sbrftog=1&from=R10&satitle=CED+player&sacat=-1%26catref%3DC6&bs=Search&fsop=1%26fsoo%3D1&coaction=compare&copagenum=1&coentrypage=search&fgtp=&sargn=-1%26saslc%3D2&sadis=200&fpos=ZIP%2FPostal&ftrt=1&ftrv=1&saprclo=&saprchi=>

If you have checked first, you could have avoided demonstrating your
ignorance.

Matthew

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