Blockbuster Video announced a few weeks ago they would no longer get new
releases on VHS.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "William Sommerwerck" <williams@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus group" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 6:55 PM
Subject: [OM] DVD success; digital versus film; "Office Space"
> "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 [sic] still lag behind VHS (only just a
> bit though)."
>
> I don't know what you saw in Ottawa, but it almost certainly wasn't DVD.
DVD
> was introduced in 1996 (IIRC). Its rate of adoption has been phenomenal --
> DVD is far and away the most-successful product in the history of consumer
> electronics. DVD will eventually become the preferred medium for video
> rental.
>
>
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