Adobe (Temporarily?) Kills 64-Bit Flash For Linux
Steve Underwood
steveu at coppice.org
Fri Jun 18 20:32:35 UTC 2010
On 06/19/2010 04:03 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Patrick Bartek wrote:
>
>> --- On Tue, 6/15/10, Dale J. Chatham<dale at chatham.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 06/15/2010 12:28 AM, Patrick
>>> Bartek wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>> There was a similar problem 35 years ago with consumer
>>>>
>>> video recording and/or playback formats. Ultimately,
>>> the consumer chose which format it preferred. They
>>> will, again. It just takes time.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> VHS/Beta?
>>>
>>> I'm not sure the consumer actually chose. The porn
>>> producers chose to
>>> go with VHS and very little Beta porn was produced.
>>>
>>> The result is that we had VHS, even though it is arguably
>>> not as good as
>>> Beta.
>>>
>> The real reason VHS triumphed over Beta was the long recording times. That's what people wanted more that superior image quality. You could record a whole movie off the TV on a single standard play cassette, or on extended play, a whole evening of TV, 6 hours. Beta couldn't.
>>
>> Also, IIRC, VHS machines were cheaper than Beta ones. Cheaper. Longer playing. Sold! Consumers have spoken. ;-)
>>
>>
> Any vendor could make VHS by getting a license. Only Sony could do Beta. Sony
> kept all the beta profit for itself until there wasn't any.
>
Try to get your facts right.
Anyone could licence Betamax from Sony, and several companies did.
Sanyo, NEC and others made a *lot* of Betamax machine. The non-Sony
Betamax machines were cheaper than VHS machines, and generally gave
superior quality.
Anyone could licence VHS from JVC, but not on a level playing field. JVC
insisted on compromises in the design of machines made by anyone outside
their own group.
Steve
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