From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Dec 7 23:18: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B698737B405 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 23:18:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (contactdish.atkielski.com [10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fB87Hjx19422; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 08:17:47 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <01b801c17fb8$70c36c50$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Mike Meyer" , "Konstantinos Konstantinidis" , , "Brad Knowles" References: <0112071641320B.01380@stinky.akitanet.co.uk><000b01c17f42$c23ab140$0a0 0000a@atkielski.com><3C110351.4748B559@duth.gr><005001c17f6c$e60c0ef0$ 0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15377.17350.796336.801464@guru.mired.org> <006901c17f70$19a2f820$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <00d901c17fa0$9d81f800$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <013e01c17fad$059cb3b0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Subject: Re: A breath of fresh air.. Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 08:17:45 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brad writes: > The inner and outer diameter of the discs. Why are these compromises? With respect to what? > The type and color of laser used to read the > data. The fact that CDs are one-sided only, > when they could easily have been two-sided. Same questions as above. > No, they succeeded because they were good > enough, and everyone in the industry got together > and agreed that this is what they would > push. No, they succeeded on their own. DVDs, for example, took off faster than the industry anticipated--no pushing required. > It was a fait accompli -- the market never had > a chance to make a decision, because there was > never any competing products that were made available > at the time. Phonograph records and tape competed with audio CDs. VHS tape and laser discs competed with DVDs. > It still defines the analog broadcast standard, > which even the best prosumer digital cameras > available today have a hard time measuring up to. You are incorrect on both points. U-Matic is inferior to broadcast standards, and prosumer cameras can easily meet broadcast standards, and have been able to do so for quite some time. > Yes, it's obviously inferior to HDTV ... It's inferior even to Hi8. U-Matic is really quite bad. I've never understood how it has survived so long. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message