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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,995c28f68b9dc343 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: The great Java showcase (re: 2nd historic mistake) Date: 1997/09/11 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 271676640 References: <97090916235363@psavax.pwfl.com> Organization: New York University Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-09-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Richard says <<"Richard A. O'Keefe" writes: >So is it really *the public* who want more conventional channels, or >is it *the advertisers*? And if it is the public, how many of them who >have been asked for their preference have actually _seen_ HDTV? (For>> Most definitely it is the public. Advertisers are only happy if people WATCH the programs they advertise on! More channels per se is of no possible interest to advertisers UNLESS more channels draw more viewers. The above note is a bit plaintiff, it seems to read "surely, surely the public would prefer our wonderful new technology, if only they could appreciate how wonderful it is. If they don't it must be because of some evil third party.": Many techie companies have gone bust because they knew better than the consumer what the consumer wanted.