Craig W
Second Unit
- Joined
- Jul 28, 1999
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DVHS is designed was designed for one thing IMO:
To keep JVC's patent royalties coming in. DVD has seriously damaged the steady stream of income that JVC has been getting over the last two decades. Technology is moving on at the expense of JVC. JVC like any smart minded company is trying to keep its revenue steady or increase it. The problem is that most techno-savvy consumers, aka the early adopters, don't want anything to do with tape anymore even if its high def. Does anyone remember DCC, Digital Compact Cassette? Philips invented that because they didn't want to see their revenue die from the original cassette format. The problem was Philips forced this format out even when it was pretty well known that people did not want it because compact disc was just starting to hit its stride.
I think JVC is hoping that laserdisc diehards will flock to them for the higher quality, but with all the talk about the DVD forum trying to come up with a HD-DVD standard is pretty much causing DVHS to be DOA much like Philip's DCC.
I have a feeling that HD-DVD will be the next laserdisc-like niche format and DVHS will be collecting dust in the trashbins of failed formats.
To keep JVC's patent royalties coming in. DVD has seriously damaged the steady stream of income that JVC has been getting over the last two decades. Technology is moving on at the expense of JVC. JVC like any smart minded company is trying to keep its revenue steady or increase it. The problem is that most techno-savvy consumers, aka the early adopters, don't want anything to do with tape anymore even if its high def. Does anyone remember DCC, Digital Compact Cassette? Philips invented that because they didn't want to see their revenue die from the original cassette format. The problem was Philips forced this format out even when it was pretty well known that people did not want it because compact disc was just starting to hit its stride.
I think JVC is hoping that laserdisc diehards will flock to them for the higher quality, but with all the talk about the DVD forum trying to come up with a HD-DVD standard is pretty much causing DVHS to be DOA much like Philip's DCC.
I have a feeling that HD-DVD will be the next laserdisc-like niche format and DVHS will be collecting dust in the trashbins of failed formats.