Posted by LeeJS on 09/22/29 11:50

On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 14:00:16 +0100, Tennant
<E-786962626D6278-2381-E@cforce.co.uk> wrote:

>>With DVD the small size, plus easy ordering and shipping on the net
>>probably won people over more than the early adopters with their flash
>>systems. And I talk as someone who paid for £350 for my first DVD
>>player...which is still going.
>
>That's not an early adopter...I paid £880 (ouch!) for my first DVD
>player...a multi-region Panasonic A350...it too is still going (albeit
>as my parent's 2nd player in the bedroom). When I bought it everyone
>took the piss out of me saying DVDs would never catch on!
>
I expect what they took the piss out of was you spending almost twice
as much on a 1st gen A350 than you needed to! You could have bought
one for about £600 from a number of retailers back then. You didn't go
to those rip off artists at CodeFreeDVD by any chance, did you? :)

Lee.
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