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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
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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?
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King Ables    Computation Center, Univ. of Texas, Austin, Texas  78712
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