[66693] in Cypherpunks
Re: VCRS and Crypto
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (craigw@dg.ce.com.au)
Fri Sep 27 21:36:30 1996
From: craigw@dg.ce.com.au
To: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net>
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 11:24:37 +0000
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
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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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