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- From: jeh@cmkrnl.com
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: questions on new digital formats
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.204102.1042@cmkrnl.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 04:41:02 GMT
- References: <1992Dec24.184453.11969@dgbt.doc.ca> <BzwJ97.HKK@cs.columbia.edu> <1992Dec29.204744.7518@adobe.com> <C01pCJ.GLp@cs.columbia.edu>
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- In article <C01pCJ.GLp@cs.columbia.edu>, ethan@cs.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
- > 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?
-
- As I've mentioned elsewhere, maybe not -- it might be 8mm all over again. (8mm
- has pretty much won the camcorder market.)
-
- > 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
-
- But Phillips is part of the recording industry too, or so I thought. Don't
- they own Polygram ?
-
- --- Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego CA
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