8 Mar
1999
8 Mar
'99
4:42 p.m.
Derek Peschel <dpeschel(a)u.washington.edu> wrote
about Amigas:
You're putting an entirely different slant on what I said. I was under the
impression that the CD32 was a big failure. (Maybe I was thinking of the
CDTV.) Besides, what you said is literally true -- if you except CD-ROM,
then DVD-ROM IS novel. :)
Maybe my lack of real Amiga experience has skewed my perspective. Maybe I
should not post so late at night. :)
The set-top box is novel. Correct me if I'm
wrong; that hasn't been tried
before (unless you count the CD32), right?
Isn't that like saying that DVD-ROM is a novel way to store data on a
consumer electronics media (unless you count CD-ROM)? Why wouldn't you count CD32? If they do a new
set-top, and it fails, and
then they do a third, will you say that the third one is novel (unless you
count the first two)?
No, I probably wouldn't. I was thinking that there was only one previous
experiment and that it flopped. Apparently that's not true.
-- Derek