From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)
Subject: Re: AdaMax? (was: ada to C++ translation)
Date: 6 Mar 2002 07:19:40 -0800
Date: 2002-03-06T15:19:40+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4519e058.0203060719.c328900@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: a63b3q$k2o$1@news1.xs4all.nl
"Rob Veenker" <veenker@xs4all.nl> wrote in message news:<a63b3q$k2o$1@news1.xs4all.nl>...
> In this respect there was even a third VCR system called Video 2000 by
> Philips during the mid '80s.
> It had great quality (like no lines in still images or when playing at high
> speed) and you could turn the tape and play side B !
> Somehow it too got squashed in the middle and Philips even decided to switch
> to VHS completely.
> I guess marketing is more important than quality... sigh.
It has *nothing* to do with marketing or quality. Its basic economics.
I suspect if you look into this you will discover that Phillips tried
to keep Video 2000 proprietary, and thus it was hosed from the get-go
against the open format of VHS. You are talking a one-company market
against a multi-company market. The winner is going to be the same
most every time.
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-02 17:13 ada to C++ translation Ira D. Baxter
2002-03-03 0:21 ` Robert Dewar
2002-03-04 15:06 ` Ira D. Baxter
2002-03-04 19:58 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-03-05 4:57 ` Robert Dewar
2002-03-27 13:45 ` Steffen Huber
2002-03-04 20:10 ` AdaMax? (was: ada to C++ translation) Ted Dennison
2002-03-05 20:49 ` Rob Veenker
2002-03-05 21:24 ` Darren New
2002-03-06 15:19 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2002-03-05 21:31 ` Marin David Condic
2002-03-06 15:59 ` Ted Dennison
2002-03-06 17:23 ` Marin David Condic
2002-03-12 17:09 ` Dale Pontius
2002-03-16 10:21 ` ada to C++ translation Kevin Cline
2002-03-16 20:20 ` Robert A Duff
2002-03-08 17:52 ` John Tate
2002-03-08 15:46 ` Ted Dennison
2002-03-08 19:36 ` [off-topic] Web "designers" (was: ada to C++ translation) Wes Groleau
2002-03-08 22:41 ` Ted Dennison
2002-03-09 0:31 ` Gary Scott
2002-03-09 2:01 ` tmoran
2002-03-15 22:41 ` ada to C++ translation Ted Dennison
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