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From: lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: video disks
Message-ID: <295@vortex.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 7-Apr-84 04:49:29 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr  7 04:49:29 1984
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In all modesty, I predicted the commercial failure of the non-laser
videodisk systems even before they were widely announced.  It just
seemed like a lot of money to pay for a unit with limited capabilities
and no record functionality.  On the other hand, the laserdisk versions
seem to have established a pretty good place for themselves in industrial
and some commercial interactive applications, and have a better chance
of surviving, even without the ability to record.

--Lauren--