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To: AreWeThereYet who wrote (1199)4/13/1998 1:41:00 AM
From: Javelyn Bjoli  Read Replies (2) of 1486
 
CD came out, what, 15 years ago? With no promise of recordable. This time, DVD recordable has been preannounced by a year or two and it is killing sales of present players. Go to an electronics store, the sales rep will tell you to buy LaserDisc instead of DVD if it's the best picture you want.

DVD is a digital replacement for the VCR &/or yuppie toy for money wasters. Unless you're buying a Dolby Digital stereo system to go with it, what's the point? Less weight to carry home from Blockbuster? Better freeze-frame?

I would love to have better record/play quality than videotape, smaller media on the shelf, media I can record at home & play back on the road in my notebook computer, media I can use for downloading music from the Net (a la Music Blvd.) at $5/album instead of $15/album, even download movies from the Net instead of driving over to Blockbuster.

DVD is set to become a core technology of the next generation of hybrid consumer/computer electronics devices. But not until it's recordable. It is taking so long to get here that I'm considering the Philips or HP CD-RW for my PC, which can do everything above except DVD-format movies. It should be an easy switch from that to DVD-RAM when it gets here.

> How many average household has CDR to burn music CD?
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