if Sony had been around earlier - format wars


for those who gave you beta, sacd and now blue ray
always intent on a format war

if sony had been around earlier

turntables would spin both clockwise and counterclockwise

8 track tapes would have competed with 10 tracks
or in a spinal tap world 11 tracks

edison would have given up

rome would have fell to both barbarians and format wars as the cariot would have been redesigned to fit in wider wheel ruts
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Porn drives the development and selection the winning format. It did with VHS. It drove the success of DVD, and it will with Blue-Ray or HD-DVD also.

Too bad people don't buy hi-rez moaning. Porn would've driven SACD or DVD-A, too.

If you have a favorite format, lobby the porn industry to adopt it.
Now, why do turntables spin clockwise? Obviously, so that right-handed people can easily manipulate the tone arm. Think about how difficult it would be with the arm on the other side of the LP.

What do you Leftys think? (Perhaps CDs are a Lefty plot).
sony's insistance on content censorship is guaranteed to kill their great ideas every time. always bet on artistic freedom.
Tvad,

Brilliant.

I recall another thread about a 5.1 center channel where someone wanted it to come from the rear instead of conventionally. I am sure they could oblige.