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Strategies & Market Trends : Gorilla and King Portfolio Candidates

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To: NY Stew who wrote (10869)11/22/1999 11:42:00 AM
From: StockHawk  Read Replies (3) of 54805
 
>> It took years for remote controlled TVs to become entrenched <<

I purchased one of the first VCR models to have a remote. It was a wired remote, meaning a wire ran from the VCR to the remote control. (Wireless remotes came out a few years later.) The remote control let me change the TV channels. Most people who saw this early remote thought it was a silly idea (who could possibly be too lazy to get up to change the TV channel). Most also thought the VCR itself was a pretty useless item (why would anyone want to tape a TV show).

An interactive programming guide does not seem like that big of a deal now. Maybe it's not. We'll see.

StockHawk
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