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Re: HDTV

At 11:07 PM 12/23/98 -0500, A. Joseph Ross wrote:
> 
>It may catch on eventually, but I think it will be very slowly.  More like
>FM and color TV than like VCRs or personal computers.  And not all new
>technology does catch on.  Remember video laser disks?  Remember quad
>stereo?  Remember 8-track cartridges? 

Actually, while they are much-maligned today, 8 tracks ruled from about '66
to '76 give or take.  Car cassette players were few, far between, and
notoriously unreliable until the late-ish 70s.  AM stereo might have been a
better example.

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