[Groop] Comic Formats

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In a message dated 5/25/04 5:44:59 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
ephillip at worldnet.att.net writes:
  It worked for movies since I own 2000 Beta tapes, 200 VHS tapes, and 20
DVDs which will also be obsolete in a couple years.
Yes, except the formats are (for the time being) sticking to optical... which 
means that they will generally be backwards-compatible.  I once talked to one 
of the research scientists at Imation in Minnesota, who was showing me the 
new blue-disc technology and things like that.  He mentioned that lack of 
backwards-compatibility has actually been a factor that discourages consumers from 
buying into a new format, at times hurting the company moreso than helping it 
with re-packaging old products.  I know I've passed up the opportunity to buy 
some movies I enjoy on VHS in DVD, simply because there are more brand-new DVDs 
that aren't available in any previous format that I want.
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