Re: Randy Shackelford, I feel your pain...

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford) wrote:

>Supertimer (supertimer@aol.com) wrote:
>: Randy, I've been involved in a debate in the rec.photo.equipment.35mm
>: newsgroup and all of the sudden, I've come to realize your viewpoint
>: and why it so often is at odds with so many A2 users.
>
>Actually I think the laserdisc/DVD wars are more similar. There are these
>DVD nitwits who think they're the greatest thing ever and wonder why people
>still have LDs. I have 225 or so LDs and I expect I'll get DVD one of these
>days, but not because of the nitwits. Plus the DVD player I get will be one
>of the combo players from Pioneer so I can get a high end LD player at the
>same time.

APS is to 35mm more like Mac is to A2 than DVD is to laserdisc...

When you switch to APS, you can't use the APS film in your old 35mm
equipment.  Like switching from an A2 to a Mac, you are switching to
something completely different.  That's why even though I see APS as
a true advance, I can see why 35mm users are wondering why those
advances could not have been made into something backward
compatible.

In the case of moving from laserdisc to DVD, the DVD player you
mentioned is backward compatible to your old laserdiscs.  If the Mac
were like this in 1984, all A2 users would have been happy.  ;-)

The way Apple/Jobs "rooked" ;-) us A2 users, it would be as if
all DVD players could not play laserdiscs and you being forced to
give up your 225 LDs.