9 Sep
2002
9 Sep
'02
3:07 a.m.
On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Feldman, Robert wrote:
What I object to is being "forced" to
switch, to have to buy new hardware
when what I have is still functional and functioning. We can keep our old
I gotta say that "functional" is a relative term here. I won't argue
that "the producers" are pushing HARD for an inherently copy-unfriendly
format. However, if DVD weren't so very much easier to use, store,
ship, maintain, and produce -- let alone harder to ruin -- users,
vendors and rental shops would not be flocking to DVD. VHS cassettes &
players have always been a big, huge, clunky, temperamental-and-easily-
borked, slow-to-set-up PITA. DVD are none of those things.
Notice that nowhere did I mention video quality. Napster proved
conclusively that nobody cares. ;)
Seriously. Superior video is not driving the market at all.
Doc