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To: dvdw© who wrote (4523)	6/14/2002 9:55:49 AM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24758

you changed the context of the post which was about DVDR and SONIC Solutions Remember (SNIC?) and converted everything to issues of the Internet which is not in fact the lead application, it will trail for now. Let's see if you can find anyone who will agree with you. Right from the start; I asked do you want to know the problems DVD Authors will have communicating in the desktop via drive/system interface. While you appear interested in only fiber to the curb, and solving or justifying VOD for today. DVD authoring exists because there is a lack of bandwidth. Across the Net upgrade bandwidth with what is available now and DVD authoring disappears, at least in its current form. MSFT is in this area simply because it's another marginal revenue generator for them over the short run. It's clear you didn't understand my illustrations like magnetic tape being the final medium. You had better get my points because Jermo, CEO of ATHM, didn't, and he went down the drain. These are two distinct sets of problems and markets, and I can assure you that I could care less in the immediate present wether they are solved soon. ATHM/ATT thinking, or I should say, that's the way they were thinking. In my neighborhood we have two broadband providers, and one more on the way, Internet video is far down the list of concerns from a perspective of DVD Authoring. That point was that VOD displaces local need for DVD authoring except in special applications like origination. Maybe George Lucas or some such will buy some copies of DVD authoring, but it's a very narrow market. If it works at all, cost to enter is low, and you have very capable competitors immediately all over you eating your lunch. the same time your friend was telling you that nonsense about audio tape. The guy was someone sounding like you who thought a certain way of doing things would last. He had to think that way, but he preferred to think that way because that's all he knew. DVD Authoring does not depend one iota on the internet. But a fully blown Net renders the margin of that activity to near zero. Please accord some respect too these creative and wonderful people who despite not being dotcoms, have managed to create in partnership with a whole other universe of specialists a new multi billion dollar business, that will march forward as a creative and dynamic business. You can't sell a pack of lies here. I'll bet you live Canada.