From: (Neil Wagner) - CED Magic

--Tom Howe
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CED Digest Vol. 2 No. 20 5/17/97
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Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 18:14:04 -0500 (CDT)
From: Geoff Oltmans
To: Tom Howe
Subject: Re: CED Digest Vol. 2 No. 19
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On Sun, 11 May 1997, Tom Howe wrote:
> From: Jesse Skeen>
> Sorry if this is getting a little off the topic of the mailing list, but
> I want to put in a few more comments about DVD. As was mentioned in the
> last mailing, DVD's look worse on bigger screens. The first time I
> commented on the "blockiness" of DVD to a salesperson at "The Good Guys"
> (a store that is anything but) he said "oh, that's because it's on a
> projection TV. They never have a very clear picture." Funny, that's also
> what they told me a couple years ago about DSS (WHY are so many people
> actually buying that thing???)
This is something that really scared me about DVD...I heard that they were
using MPEG for compressing the video early on. After working in AV&C
(a Tandy Brand store), the artifacting really got to me. Seems my fears
are confirmed. :)
> I wonder how salespeople sold CED's when they came out. Did they try to
> convince people that they didn't actually see the disc skip, or that it
> was nothing to worry about? It's funny how old video magazines often
> wrote about CED players as a viable product, seems the companies were
> putting cash in their pockets for not saying that they were a joke. Now
> history is repeating itself.
This is exactly the reason that I like to take magazine comments with a
BIG grain of salt. Video Game mags are the worst for this candy-coating
stuff...or just plain writing about things they haven't the slightest
bit of information on.
> Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 04:01:35 -0700
> From: Tom Howe
> To: ceds@teleport.com
> Subject: Best and Worst Side Breaks on CED's