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Originally Posted by MAGNA
I was really worried when I got my first 20 meg hard drive about 100 years ago. It cost so much and the things actually broke down after a year or two back then if you didn't keep parking the heads and so on. Now I can buy a hard drive with enough storage for all the speeches Castro ever made including video for the price of the original 20 meg drive and they actually throw in the rest of the computer with it.
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Mine was 30 megabytes. I remember the salesman told me I could go to 40 but would never fill the 30 "in a hundred years". My how times have changed.
I'll admit to having waited out the HD-DVD vs Blu-ray competition, believing that with some studios committed to each format it was going to last awhile. In the Betamax vs VHS competition Sony had not gotten strategic partners and that was a part of why they lost that time. They learned well from that mistake. That, and they made a superior product with more options. 480p that I get from my "old fashioned" DVD player looks nice on the LCD screen but I am looking forward to 1080p, an option not yet available for cable/air/satellite television in the US, as yet.