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- From: ethan@cs.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
- Subject: Re: questions on new digital formats
- Message-ID: <C01pCJ.GLp@cs.columbia.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.columbia.edu (The Daily News)
- Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
- References: <1992Dec24.184453.11969@dgbt.doc.ca> <BzwJ97.HKK@cs.columbia.edu> <1992Dec29.204744.7518@adobe.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 00:00:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.204744.7518@adobe.com> caro@adobe.com writes:
- >
- >Against all this is the common sense guess that the recording industry
- >will tolerate only *one* consumer recordable medium for new releases, as
- >we have seen with the film industry. To my surprise, there seems to be
- >just as much support for MD as there is for DCC at the moment, but I
- >wonder how long that will last? Is this Beta all over again?
- >
- One thing to note: Sony IS part of the recording
- industry. And they developed the second standard. Now, perhaps
- their two divisions are separate (they should talk to Microsoft
- about this 8), but I expect they planned this.
- -- Ethan
-
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- "I have never seen one of these intact before... This is the
- famous dead-sea tupperware"
-
- -- Robin Williams
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