Posted by Roy L. Fuchs on 04/09/06 20:41

On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 09:44:00 -0400, Tom Stiller
<tomstiller@comcast.net> Gave us:

>In article <ggia32dlqrm5otf58ltrvrbv2j2v5tq2b0@4ax.com>,
> Kimba W. Lion <kimbawlion@aol.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> There are other variables besides consumer acceptance. CED beat LD in
>> terms of sales, but still did not meet RCA's projections, and so they
>> killed it while sales were still growing.
>
>There were a number of reasons why RCA killed VideoDisc, but slumping
>sales wasn't one of them. The disc pressing process was fatally flawed
>and if disc sales had gone as projected, the division would have
>collapsed sooner than it did. As it was, RCA only lasted another 18
>months before being swallowed by GE.

Who then sold the division off to Thompson.

CED was lame from conception on. They knew from the get go that it
would never have the data capacity for the job. It barely made it at
all.

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