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

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Supertimer (supertimer@aol.com) wrote:

: 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.  ;-)

Most DVD player manufacturers could give a rat's ass about laserdisc since
it was never more than a niche. Pioneer is the only company making a combo
player and is about the only ones making LD players at all.

: 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.

If not for Pioneer, anyone with LDs would have to supplement their LD player
with a DVD player, much like a IIgs owner has to buy a separate Mac to have
the latest. There would be no "giving up" involved since you could still play
LDs on your existing player. Indeed, there are entire studios e.g. Fox who
aren't doing DVD at all, plus it was and still is the case that LD has the
better version of lots of titles. For instance, Scream on LD is an unrated
director's cut but on DVD it's the R rated theatrical version, and the DVD
zealots are griping about that. Anyone who gets rid of their LDs or even 
doesn't consider buying them still is an idiot.

Boy I smell another endless off topic thread brewing
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