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To: RobRoy

And you can now watch an entire movie on DVD without going from side a to side b.


86 posted on 12/06/2004 12:18:04 PM PST by marajade
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To: marajade

Heh, heh. For me that is a BIGGIE.

I was a big proponent of Laser in the mid-to-late seventies. Seattle was a test market for the original Magnavox machine, and I was the only one in the stereo stores I worked in that sold any quantity. And I myself owned one the minute I had the cash at salesman discount.

But I am pragmatic about it. It's time came and went. There is little it has to offer over DVD. When the DVD was even talked about, I KNEW that laser was dead, dead, dead.

Anybody ever see the movie where pirates find booty and it contains a bunch of laserdisks and one of the pirates says something along the lines of "What good are these? You can't record on them."

That is what we usually got from customers back then. I would then ask them if they had a record player. 8^>


91 posted on 12/06/2004 12:22:40 PM PST by RobRoy (Science is about "how." Christianity is about "why.")
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