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From: ron@wjvax.UUCP (Ron Christian)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: videodisks
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Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 22:12:28 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 29 22:12:28 1985
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Organization: Watkins Johnson, San Jose, Calif.
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>> Is it true that the laser
>> disk market is going down the tubes, and the people like RCA have
>> sold out and discontinued there Laser Disk line?
>
>Whether the laser disk market is going down the tubes is anyone's guess.
>As for RCA, well, yes, they tossed in the towel on their videodisk line,
>but they weren't laser disks. RCA was the manufacturer of the infamous
>stylus videodisks.
>--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA)
***
Smile when you say that!  :-)  I have one of those 'infamous' machines
and it works quite nicely for the $170 investment, thank you.  We were
watching disks in high quality video and *stereo* for $26 purchase, $2
rental, when the rest of you were scrabbling for $90 VHS tapes and rentals
were nonexistant.  And Star Trek came out on the RCA disk first! The 12
episodes of Trek on disk are still available, and are still less expensive
than the corrisponding tapes.  (The good ones, 'City on the Edge of Forever',
'Trouble with Tribbles', etc. are there.)

Sure it's obsolete, but we didn't kick in much money, and it was a great
way to find out whether we needed a home video system.  We got a lot of
use out of it.  (Still do, although the beta gets more play these days.)
Now, when RCA throws in the towel on VHS, that'll be something.
-- 
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	Ron Christian  (Watkins-Johnson Co.  San Jose, Calif.)
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