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Technology Stocks : Disk Drive Sector Discussion Forum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: La Traguhs who wrote (4674)	10/11/1998 2:32:00 AM
From: Pierre-X	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9256

Re: HiFD Does the Sony HiFD technology have a declared upgrade path? 200MB is a non-starter. Nobody will buy that. The only way a new infrastructure technology has a chance at breaking into a market is either by serving a critical niche need or by offering at least an order of magnitude of improved performance ... neither of which, as far as I can tell, characterizes HiFD. On the other hand, if Sony and partners were planning to scale this technology to Orb-like dimensions in the near future while maintaining backward compatibility, then it MIGHT have a chance. Otherwise this is going to be Betamax, the sequel. IMHO.