Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 07:41:19 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>, "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org>, "Konstantinos Konstantinidis" <kkonstan@duth.gr>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Brad Knowles" <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Subject: Re: A breath of fresh air.. Message-ID: <a05101018b837656c1f03@[10.0.1.16]> In-Reply-To: <013e01c17fad$059cb3b0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <0112071641320B.01380@stinky.akitanet.co.uk><000b01c17f42$c23ab140$0a0 0000a@atkielski.com><3C110351.4748B559@duth.gr><005001c17f6c$e60c0ef0$ 0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15377.17350.796336.801464@guru.mired.org> <006901c17f70$19a2f820$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <a05101004b8373f5230e8@[10.0.1.16]> <00d901c17fa0$9d81f800$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <a0510100bb8375314d283@[10.0.1.16]> <013e01c17fad$059cb3b0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
At 6:56 AM +0100 on 2001/12/08, Anthony Atkielski wrote: >> There are plenty of compromises that were made >> with both of these technologies. > > Such as? The inner and outer diameter of the discs. The type and color of laser used to read the data. The fact that CDs are one-sided only, when they could easily have been two-sided. I could go on, but that's enough. > Both of them were vastly superior to all competition, and succeeded on that > basis, irrespective of any marketing or lack thereof. No, they succeeded because they were good enough, and everyone in the industry got together and agreed that this is what they would push. It was a fait accompli -- the market never had a chance to make a decision, because there was never any competing products that were made available at the time. >> U-matic defines the parameters by which all >> other analog video formats are measured. > > Yes, it can be used to establish a baseline, albeit a very outdated one now. It still defines the analog broadcast standard, which even the best prosumer digital cameras available today have a hard time measuring up to. Yes, it's obviously inferior to HDTV, but since HDTV was explicitly designed to supercede the analog broadcast standard, this is not a suitable comparison to make in this case. -- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be> H4sICIFgXzsCA2RtYS1zaWcAPVHLbsMwDDvXX0H0kkvbfxiwVw8FCmzAzqqj1F4dy7CdBfn7 Kc6wmyGRFEnvvxiWQoCvqI7RSWTcfGXQNqCUAnfIU+AT8OZ/GCNjRVlH0bKpguJkxiITZqes MxwpSucyDJzXxQEUe/ihgXqJXUXwD9ajB6NHonLmNrUSK9nacHQnH097szO74xFXqtlbT3il wMsBz5cnfCR5cEmci0Rj9u/jqBbPeES1I4PeFBXPUIT1XDSOuutFXylzrQvGyboWstCoQZyP dxX4dLx0eauFe1x9puhoi0Ao1omEJo+BZ6XLVNaVpWiKekxN0VK2VMpmAy+Bk7ZV4SO+p1L/ uErNRS/qH2iFU+iNOtbcmVt9N16lfF7tLv9FXNj8AiyNcOi1AQAA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?a05101018b837656c1f03>