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Technology Stocks : Concurrent Computer (CCUR) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Christiaan McDonald who wrote (10162)	7/17/1999 9:44:00 AM
From: Don Hand	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21142

The choice will be pushed to the customer at Best Buy and Circuit City. The STB's will be required to be sold retail. The STB makers will have several models. The cheaper ones will be naked diskless. The high end will have disks. The Cable companies will not distribute expensive STB's with disks if only to see them not being used. Not to mention the support costs in repairing disk drives. Best Buy will be happy to sell service contracts. The VCR will not go away unless customers stop renting tapes. Only VOD will offer that unless Blockbuster goes DVD. DVD has come close but it looks like the VCR will continue to win especially if customers continue to tape their soap opera and sports events. Not to mention taping one show while they watch another. Tivio will stuggle to replace the VCR. Yea mobile laptop users and yuppies who have everything will buy them. But my parents who just figured out the VCR clock and Micro Wave will not.