From: craigw@dg.ce.com.au
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 11:18:32 +0800
To: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net>
Subject: Re: VCRS and Crypto
Message-ID: <199609280123.LAA15458@mac.ce.com.au>
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If the average person cared about quality rather than what is 
marketed as bestand the must have,  we might have laser disk instead
of video rental stores. Also, where would M$ be

> >Remember the VHS/Beta VCR wars?  With a fairly equal market in about 1978,
> >Beta died 10 years later because the market couldn't support two
> >incompatible standards.  It wasn't that one was dramatically better than the
> >other, it was simply that having two standards forced the market to
> >duplicate stocks, for the machines as well as tapes, particularly
> >pre-recorded tapes.  Notice, however, that VCR's are relatively "isolated":
> >It doesn't really matter if you have one format and your neighbor has
> >another, unless you want to swap tapes.  But crypto telephones inherently
> >require (in the long term) full intercompability.  If you didn't have that,
> >there'd be half a world of people you couldn't call!
> 

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