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- From: chall@clover.cleaf.com (Chris Hall)
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- Subject: Re: Can AT Surfer compete with Apple/Disney?
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- Date: 1 Mar 1996 10:28:36 GMT
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- Dave Haynie (dave.haynie@scala.com) wrote:
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- : But that's really important. If you don't get enough consumer response
- : from these folks, the product is doomed. Look at recordable digital
- : audio tape -- DAT found a professional niche, DCC is dead, and
- : MiniDisk is floundering at best. None of these were found to be cool
- : enough to enough people at the right price and time to create a
- : consumer market. Any new item moving into the consumer market is faced
- : with the same problems. That's one reason why the DVD folks are
- : talking to each other these days -- they think that's an amazing
- : market and don't want to wait five years for the dust to settle on
- : something consumerish.
-
- The problem with Sony's MiniDisk is Sony. They wanted it to be the digital
- replacement for cassettes but they priced it out of the market. I think
- many people were hyped up to get them but $800 was way to much for a
- consumer audio recording medium. Even now it's still priced out of the
- market. If they were to drop the price down to an afordable level, they
- would become very popular.
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- Chris Hall
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