Re: [d@DCC] DVD inevitability

From: Michael Richardson <mcr _-at-_ sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
To: General Discussion <discuss (at) digital-copyright.ca>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 14:37:10 -0400

>>>>> "Russell" == Russell McOrmond <russell@flora.ca> writes:
    >> 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.

    Russell> On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 16:38:50 -0400 "Tom Trottier" <Tom@Abacurial.com> 
    Russell> wrote:

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


    Russell>   I think too many things are getting confused here.  The question is not
    Russell> whether Digital Versatile Disks (larger CD disks), and putting MPEG (or
    Russell> Video OBject - VOB files)  on them was inevitable.

    Russell>   The question is whether or not the questionable DVD-CSS system, the 
    Russell> claimed proprietary encoding format for VOB files licensed exclusively 
    Russell> from the DVD-CCA cartel, was inevitable (legal, required, whatever...)

  Yes, I think that we can see the difference. The point is that the movie
people are confused. They think that they caused the technology to be
created, and that they should get some "innovations" points.

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