Re: How Soon Before Everything Worth Watching is On A DVD

"Mike Kohary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> "Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > As soon as everything is put on DVD another format will be created like
>  SDVD
> > or something. So you will be forced to buy the same shit over and over
>  again
> > in the latest format. Then you will have to buy the players and recorders
>  to
> > use the format. Its all a conspiracy to keep them rich and you broke.
> 
> Another less cynical way of looking at it is that another superior format
> will be developed (because it's not like they have that new format sitting
> on the shelf, just waiting a few more years so they can milk you), and at
> that time you will have the choice (not be forced - who's forcing you?) to
> upgrade to that format or not.  Obviously you'd have to buy the players and
> media if you want to upgrade to that format, but it's actually just a normal
> development cycle, not a conspiracy.


Network TV to Cable TV to VCR Technology and now to DVD technology and
who knows someday soon it maybe something like a super HDTV computer
storage chip (like TIVO only can have 1000's of films,tv shows
pictures on a single system at no cost and so on) or even some form of
3-D storage technology?

But the fact is that the DVD is the first technological format that
gives the home viewer
the ability to see what they like, when they like, as many times as
they like, and all without the replacement costs of VCR tapes (when
they wear out) or the fees of cable or dish television!
   
In fact as I think on it this DVD format could be considered to be in
the same class as the early 45's.

Which as they first came out gave the listening public their first
chance to listen to the songs they wanted to hear without having to
wait to hear it on the radio and or to have to go out and buy a whole
album for one or two songs

Also I can remember that 45's stuck around a long time into the
8-Track (some would say outlasted that format) and then into the
Cassette age and it only really started to die out when the CD came
into its own!