On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 13:24:20 -0000, "M.I.5?"
<no.one@no.where.NO_SPAM.co.uk> Gave us:


>It used to be held that any new media that the market accepted had a 30 year
>life. 78s lasted about that time. LPs, CDs and VHS all appear to have had
>a similar life. But it looks like DVD may not even manage 20 years. Such
>is the march of progress. The problem can only get worse.
>>
>

Someone so knowledgable. Yet you left out Laser Disc completely,
and it had a twenty year tenure, though it did not penetrate all
consumer markets like LPs or VHS did. Much less DVDs. They took off
and even astounded the forecasters.

LD was expensive so it left out an entire market segment.

I'd bet that Pioneer nd many others would tell you they were happy
with its success however. Many of the same companies that got started
in LD are the companies that are now producing our DVDs and HD DVDs,
etc.