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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)?
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To: Rutgers who wrote (42367)1/5/1998 8:06:00 PM
From: FuzzFace  Read Replies (2) of 58324
 
WF and all: Here is an interesting article on "Zip killer" DVD prospects.

economist.com

Along the way, DVD has stumbled. The economic downturn in Japan has taken its toll. So have squabbles with the film studios over royalties and protection against piracy, which have restricted the number of DVD titles during much of 1997. But the biggest drawback seems to have been that DVD is not yet a real replacement for the VCR because it cannot record - a version that can is at least a year away and the subject of a battle over standards.

Guess I'll be waiting over a year for my DVD-RAM.

"The first three to five years of DVD availability will be a low-volume disappointment" says Mark Hardie of Forrester Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who predicts that it will be 2002 before DVD finds its way into even 5% of American households. By contrast, 90% of American and Japanese households own a VCR.

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Perhaps they are too late. A new type of digital-television satellite is looming over the Japanese horizon, which will offer 300 digital video channels with a quality every bit as good as that of DVD. Japanese viewers will then have a selection of films broadcast almost continuously thrown in with their monthly satellite-TV subscription. Although there will be less choice, there will probably be enough: the top 20 films enjoy 80% of the market. Telly addicts may have been a good deal more clever than the DVD makers think.

I know they are talking about TV, but the same prognosis probably applies to the PC market.
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