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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (34965)	11/10/1997 4:08:00 PM
From: Maverick	Respond to of 58324

Sour grapes Rockhead. Besides, you are so far from winning that battle that your comparison to professional Beta video gear is ludicrous.

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (34965)	11/10/1997 4:15:00 PM
From: Zakrosian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

Rocky - unlike many IOM enthusiasts I enjoy your posts and respect your professional judgement (I figure an Arthur Brown fan has to be alright). You may very well be right about the consumer/professional split in the market. Do you have any information about the relationship between the consumer VCR and the professional Beta sales?

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (34965)	11/10/1997 5:29:00 PM
From: Trakker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

Mr. Reid, You state: >>If we apply this analogy to removable drives, then it is conceivable that Iomega can set the standard for crappy consumer stuff, but Syquest can rule the high performance professional market segment.<< So, how successful can Iomega be if they sell tens of millions of those crappy little zip drives, and hundreds of millions of those high margin "crappy" little zip disks? BTW Rocky, did you follow your SYQT investment enought to know when they first "launched" the 4.7 gig drive? Well see Thursday if Iomega delivers on its vaporware; when do you think SyQuest delivers on their vapor? <<What's next for Comdex?>> Keep shorting Iomega up to COMDEX, then when you get shredded again maybe you can come back and explain to us how "great" your other investments are doing. Don't bet too much on either Sparq or Quest; take a good hard look at their potential and how far they're behind. and don't discount a counter move by our friends in Roy - good luck, you'll need it after this week. bye-bye

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (34965)	11/10/1997 10:05:00 PM
From: Even1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

Rocky, is it ignorance or intentional deception? The Betacam format to which you mistakenly refer as Beta has no relation to the consumer tape format other than the manufacturer. Betacam (commonly shortened to Beta since there is no other living Beta to cause confusion) is indeed a broadcast format, however it owes it's quality to expensive design. Broadcast Beta machines cost in excess of $35,000, with the latest Digital Betacam editing decks over $50,000 a pop. Maybe you need one of those in your living room so you don't have to watch "crappy VHS", but the rest of the world prefers to go with the Standard. Your credibility continues to diminish each time you discuss things that you don't know about.

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (34965)	11/11/1997 5:24:00 PM
From: FuzzFace	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

<Every time you watch TV, chances are you are watching a taped program from Beta SP. Beta is the standard format behind the scenes that consumers never see. > Really? What happened to D-1 and D-2? Last I heard, Brodcast Beta was only 500 lines. And wasn't Hi-8 the format that brought us the gulf war? < it is conceivable that Iomega can set the standard for crappy consumer stuff> Umm, Rock, I hate to break the news to you, but we longs are in IOM because it is a consumer oriented company. You may think it is "crappy", we don't. <That 4.7 Gig Quest is a breakthrough in audio/video technology.Even 2 Gig Jaz is too small to do many serious video applications, but 4.7 Gigs is some serious storage-- maybe too hard for many professionals to ignore. > Average consumers can and should ignore it until the FAT32 file system is standard. It has been out for a year now (since Win95 OSR2), and NO ONE turns it on in any shipping PC ! There are bugs in it, and it has been called (by high-end professionals) the worst idea MS has ever come up with. With FAT16, as long as you cannot format a removable, you can only use 2.1 of your 4.7 GB anyway.