He sounds like an industry insider to me ;o)
In any case, financial and entertainment experts on CNN have stated for the
past 5 years that volume sales of DVD would beat VHS. They haven't. Maybe
this year.
DVDs are just now coming into their own. I remember when I was working
during the summer of 1991 when I saw a DVD player for the first time here in
Ottawa. Expensive, and if you recall, the early ones never worked!!!! The
moral is it has taken over 10 years for DVD to get where it is now (a long
time in a "wired world") and they still lag behind VHS (only just a bit
though).
This should give everyone pause for thought regarding digicams, especially
with the Kodak film stats recently given. 525-million people in the world
are not going to give up their film overnight. Like all innovations that
have to pass consumer judgement, it will take time. My guess.....over 10
years.
-Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: Walt Wayman [mailto:hiwayman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: October 8, 2002 1:43 PM
To: INTERNET:olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [OM] Re: 35mm film lost the battle against digital ? NO WAY
Message text written by INTERNET:olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>People said VHS would die 10 yrs ago with DVD, it hasn't.<
Being reluctant to rush headlong into the embrace of the latest technology,
it's been only a couple of weeks since this household invested in a DVD
player. While at a Best Buy picking up a couple of things to watch --
"Good Fellas," "Heat," "Reservoir Dogs" and "The Usual Suspects" for
starters -- a most authorative teenager, complete with embedded metal and
impregnated ink, sauntered up and informed me, "Hey, old dude, in two years
they ain't going to be no more movies out on video tape. It's all going to
be on DVD. Yer getting caught up, I see. And Reservoir Dogs is awesome,
considering it's really ancient."
He may be right. Out of the mouths of babes, despite the fact they are
metal-headed and tattooed, even we survivors of the last half of the 20th
Century may learn something. Could happen.
And "Reservoir Dogs" is way too violent and bloody for normal people, so
don't take this as a recommendation.
Walt
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