Posted by RobMac on 03/22/07 02:46

"Derek Janssen" <ejanss@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> RobMac wrote:
>
>> The DVD format turned TEN yesterday....
>> (10 years since the first commercial DVDs were available for purchase!)
>>
>> I plopped in my original "The Terminator", which was the very first DVD I
>> ever bought, back in 1997, which IIRC was among the first few DVDs ever
>> released.
>
> Remember when Netflix and DVDExpress.com^1 were just struggling little
> renegade one-warehouse mom-and-pop operations, trying to unite a small
> far-flung band of techies in the wilderness, like those college-town
> Laserdisk stores did?
>
> And if you were one of the 200 people who had a DVD player, you thought
> were clever to have finally located Netflix on the net, and rent a disk
> for $3.00 for two weeks?
> Meanwhile, for about two or three years after the Peace Talks, all the
> other owners and PS2 gamers never even knew you COULD rent DVD's at
> all--since Blockbuster hadn't heard of them yet--and thought they had to
> *buy* any disk they hadn't seen in theaters and wanted to watch that
> night?...
> And for years, a.v.d. would be flooded with posts about "I just bought
> 'Twister' for $35, is it any good?" (And every game store had a Used-DVD
> rack with twenty copies each of "Lethal Weapon 4" and "Adventures of Super
> Dave"?)
>
> Nowadays, we have Netflix as a national network offering HD and Blu disks
> from day one, creating saturation almost immediately--
> And Blockbuster *still* hasn't caught up yet. :)
>
> Derek Janssen
> ejanss@comcast.net
> ----
> [1 - Noticing eerie historical parallels, now that "DeepDiscount.com" has
> decided to drop the "DVD" from its name, and try to expand to selling
> books, posters and CD's...]
>

Wasn't Blockbuster in league with the whole DiVX thing?
I seem to recall them at the forefront for some reason.



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