On 13/01/2019 08:39, silverdr@wfmh.org.pl wrote: > Not really, but it was already late, and since V2000 was too good (read: couldn't be sold cheap) when it entered the market, its fate was sealed quickly. Betamax had 100% of the market until VHS launched, by the time Video 2000 launched VHS had seized over 50% of that market. VHS won partly on cost and partly on the ridiculously short recording time. Philips didn't like making low cost items, but the extra money when money was tight didn't give you anything appreciable. I think we had a 21" crt, the concept of a home cinema didn't exist. There certainly weren't enough people who would pay a premium for video 2000 to drive the movie rentals. If a time traveller took a bluray player and one disc back in time, then they'd have trouble selling it to someone to just watch that disc. > There were. I had (borrowed) the original Star Wars, split to two sides of a VCC for example. I'm not saying they didn't exist, Star Wars was everywhere. Other than one kid at school whose parents had bought a video 2000 recorder and they always complained they couldn't find any rental tapes, I had no experience of video 2000. It was also released on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance_Electronic_Disc , which I hadn't even heard of until about a dozen years ago when a friend bought a player.Received on 2019-01-13 14:00:03
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