Posted by Derek Janssen on 01/01/07 21:43

Aaron J. Bossig wrote:
>
>>1. DVD is, exactly like VHS, "good enough", cheap, and ubiquitous.
>>Even playing on my computer, the video and audio are crisp.
>
> The flaw in that comparison is that DVD did, in fact, replace VHS.
> Therefore, nothing prevents DVD from being replaced by someone else.

We watched VHS because we Had To. (Thus creating the archaic "Pay per
view" idea that we download movies because we, like, want to see the
really cool movie!)
Once we saw DVD, it finally became okay to complain about destructible
media, linear navigation and rewinding, standard audiovisual resolution,
no extras, and shelf space.

We saw DVD and wanted to wipe VHS off the face of the earth.
We saw HD DVD and said "Cool...Does it play standard DVD's too?" :)

Derek Janssen (and those who think "it can happen again" tend...not to
be all that clear on how it happened the first time)
ejanss@comcast.net

[Back to original message]