Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-ngp.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!drutx!houxe!hogpc!houti!ariel!vax135!floyd!cmcl2!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!ables From: ables@ut-ngp.UUCP Newsgroups: net.video Subject: video disc players Message-ID: <689@ut-ngp.UUCP> Date: Thu, 14-Jun-84 11:54:42 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.689 Posted: Thu Jun 14 11:54:42 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 15-Jun-84 01:03:48 EDT Organization: Comp. Center, Univ. of Texas at Austin Lines: 22 I am considering buying a video disc player later this summer but I'd like the opinion of some "people who know" on a couple of points. Are they going to be around? I've heard some companies are no longer making them since they aren't selling (which seems amazing since the picture is better and after 10 or 15 years a tape will be awful, plus buying tapes of movies cost more than buying discs). Is RCA committed to them at least? If I buy one, will I be able to buy movies in 10 years or will they discontinue making the discs when they discontinue making the players? Is the current video disc going to be the form of the media for a long time to come? I've heard there's so much information they can put on those new audio-laser-discs that the could probably put a movie on them and they're a lot smaller, is there a chance that they'd go to something smaller, rendering the current stuff obsolete? I guess I'm asking what the chances of the current stuff becoming unused/obsolte in the near future and the distant future? ---- King Ables Computation Center, Univ. of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712 ARPA:ables@ut-ngp UUCP:{ctvax,ihnp4,kpno,seismo}!ut-sally!ut-ngp!ables