Home Video Asylum

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Battle of the Bulge.

I suppose this is Toshiba's last, and probably hopeless last maneuver in a lost war. Perhaps enough cheap movies would become available, but for me, there is, so far, less than ten titles in both formats combined that I really want.

Perhaps someone will get lucky as those who bought RCA's competitor to LaserDiscs. RCA had a video disc that was read by a stylus playing in a shallow groove (the signal was the difference in capacitance caused by varying depth of pits in the groove). It worked well, but lost to the LaserDisc (itself, ultimately a loser). But, as a good faith gesture to those who bought the machines, RCA offered $500 to buy back the machines. That was a fantastic bargain for those who bought the machines for a lot less. At a show, I saw boxes and boxes of machines going for $50 (and no takers) before RCA made the offer.


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  • Battle of the Bulge. - Larry I 16:09:11 01/15/08 (0)

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