DVD inevitability

From: "Tom Trottier" <Tom _-at-_ Abacurial.com>
To: General Discussion <discuss (at) digital-copyright.ca>
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 16:38:50 -0400
References: Your message of "Fri, 09 Aug 2002 13:15:20 PDT." <459F05C5CBAB824BB3DD965CC92BBFEA15A0D9@swan.spectrumsignal.com>

On Saturday, August 10, 2002 at 15:44, Michael Richardson 
<discuss@digital-copyright.ca>
wrote re "Re: [d@DCC] RE: discuss-digest V1 #187 " saying:
...
>   There would be DVDs, as the CDrom was getting too small for computer data use.
>   in fact, I'd like to suggest that if not for the millions of computers that
> were shipped with DVD players, that the Movie-DVD would have flopped.

DVDs are much cheaper and faster to manufacture than videos, and hold 
HDTV signals. They, or something like them, were inevitable.

Tom
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