--- In [email protected], "David Jordan" <wa3...@...> wrote:
"... I think D-STAR will end up like Quadraphonic sound.just a matter of time. .." -------------------------------------------------------------------- Agreed. D-Star had the misfortune to roll out just ahead of the economic downturn. D-Star may trudge on much like LaserDisk did - Pioneer was pretty much the only one backing it just as D-Star has one major backer. LaserDisk survived until a better format won acceptance so it will be interesting to see where amateur VHF/UHF digital voice winds up. This quote from the Wikipedia LaserDisk article may fit D-Star in a couple of years: "...the format was poorly received in North America. In Europe and Australia, it remained largely an obscure format. It was, however, much more popular in Japan ..."
