Posted by Roy L. Fuchs on 01/15/22 11:44

On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 12:02:47 -0400, "Matthew L. Martin"
<nothere@notnow.never> Gave us:

>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.

Oh BOY! A whole NINE listings. Yeah, it really took off... NOT!

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