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From: andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: Re: Videophiles
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Date: Thu, 9-May-85 23:25:36 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  9 23:25:36 1985
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>> From the latest issue of Video Magazine, titles issued in HI-FI, but not on 
>> disk (a partial list):
>
> Wrong (Anti-)Laser Breath!!!
> First, I have NEVER seen ANY video magazine give any credit to the LV format.
> Second, What is listed in a magazine is NEVER correct.  
> Of the titles that you have named, I own four of them on Laser Disc.

And now for a bit of light on the subject.  The video mag listings are
for what was issued that month.  This year there have been long lead
times on disk production, and so laserdisks have been lagging tapes by
a couple of months.  (For example, I finally got "The Last Starfighter"
this month; it's been on tape since before Christmas.)  When the disk
is issued, you'll see a note that makes you think the movie is only
available on disk.  The video editorial staffs would do well to
consolidate these listings to reflect the history of the software on
various media.

I own both a laserdisk player and a VCR.  I used to buy movies on tape,
but no more.  The sound on laserdisk is great, the picture is much
better (laserdisk holds more scan lines per frame than does tape), and
the movies are MUCH cheaper ... typically $30 versus $60.

Nevertheless, there ARE movies out on tape which are not on disk.  Tape
production has a low up-front cost and a high per-unit cost, while
disks are the opposite, so it doesn't pay to run a batch of disks that
won't sell big.

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!orca!andrew)       [UUCP]
                        (orca!andrew.tektronix@csnet-relay)  [ARPA]