From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,6a7cfec93e22adfc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-06 07:19:40 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: AdaMax? (was: ada to C++ translation) Date: 6 Mar 2002 07:19:40 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <4519e058.0203060719.c328900@posting.google.com> References: <3c81060d$1@giga.realtime.net> <5ee5b646.0203021621.ce5a579@posting.google.com> <3c838b53@giga.realtime.net> <4519e058.0203041210.5f878d07@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.115.221.98 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1015427980 18798 127.0.0.1 (6 Mar 2002 15:19:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Mar 2002 15:19:40 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20860 Date: 2002-03-06T15:19:40+00:00 List-Id: "Rob Veenker" wrote in message news:... > 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. -- T.E.D. Home - mailto:dennison@telepath.com (Yahoo: Ted_Dennison) Homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html