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happen?<br />
*Geoff!*<br />
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<strong>From</strong>: DPC16<br />
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 18:38:54 -0500 (EST)<br />
To: ceds@teleport.com<br />
Subject: The <strong>CED</strong> Future, Part VI & Personal Notes<br />
The <strong>CED</strong> Future<br />
Part VI, The Role of Thomson Consumer Electronics<br />
By Daniel P. Cayea<br />
As Tom Howe pointed out in his updated <strong>CED</strong> FAQ's, perhaps someday<br />
Thomson Consumer Electronics will release a commemorative disc on the<br />
twentieth<br />
anniversary of the <strong>CED</strong> system. Well, the twentieth anniversary is in 2001,<br />
so far I<br />
haven't seen any movement on their end. As the 750,000 possible <strong>CED</strong> users<br />
are<br />
struggling to keep their equipment up we see a problem. A problem that now<br />
unless we ourselves purchase the rights, that only Thomson can help us with.<br />
Life is life, business is business. Of course that is the way corporate<br />
America thinks today, and that is no different compared to General Electric<br />
or<br />
Thomson Consumer Electronic either. For whatever reason General Electric<br />
just<br />
had to have RCA Corporation back in 1986, it is a corporate fact of life, big<br />
companies or richer companies have to swallow up little or poorer companies.<br />
Now that RCA is gone, we find ourselves scurrying to get whatever help or<br />
equipment that we can find. As with players, movies, and stylus cartridges<br />
dwindle away, we have to find a solution. This is one of the other reasons<br />
why<br />
we need to join together and get this technology started again. This<br />
technology<br />
is just like an old boat, the longer we wait without any action, the sooner<br />
we<br />
sink. It has been said that Thomson in all probability still has Disc<br />
Stamping<br />
Station as well as some other machinery for the production of <strong>CED</strong> hardware,<br />
such as stylus cartridges. <strong>From</strong> a relative point of view, purchasing these<br />
items from Thomson Consumer Electronics should be easy. For they have no use<br />
for it at all, however we do. For I, just being one person, do not have the<br />
financial resources to do this. Yet, the almost 750,000 possible <strong>CED</strong><br />
enthusiasts do have the resources to<br />
accomplish this. Write Thomson like I have on information of the equipment<br />
for<br />
<strong>CED</strong> that they have. Eventually they will respond to the numerous requests<br />
that
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