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> * "Matt Wall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 29 May 2001
> | I disagree 110%, compared to vhs/beta/HDTV/dang near any new product
> | projections DVD did take off like a bat out of hell.
>
> DVD-Video has been around for about five years now. Its growth has mostly
> been in the past two years. In its first two years of existence,
DVD-Video
> came >< close to failing outright. The media was expensive and
unreliable,
> the players moreso, and the selection of titles microscopic. And even
> though its growth in the past two years has been rapid, it has been very
> steady, not explosive. And it is still well behind its initial
> projections, which had DVD-Video completely replacing consumer VHS by the
> end of last year.
And minidiscs were set to replace tapes. Its all a little thing called
marketing and bureacracy, you better learn that, nothing ever achieves its
expectations in the format wars.
Stuart Howlette
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