[78-L] Amazon Quickie and death of DVD

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> Here's a nifty happening.  I was pulling up in front of the house and my
> cell phone rings from Leah.  She had seen an Amazon upcoming Black
> Friday listing saying a "fab deal Four you" that was going to open up in
> a few seconds.  She gave me a count-down as I got to the house.  I was
> wondering why she was insisting that she HAD to be there when it became
> available.  Now I know.  It was the Beatles Stereo remaster box for
> 99.99 down from 177.  I said "Yeah get it."  She clicks on it as I get
> in the door.  It's in the cart and I figured I'd check out.  She
> refreshes the page and says "Holy Crap!  It says 56% claimed!  Should I
> check out?"  She checked out and I was still logging in on my computer.
> THREE MINUTES after it went on sale it was Sold Out and I would not have
> gotten onto the page in time if she wasn't onto it already.  Talk about
> being TRAMPLED on Black Friday!
>
Assume that there exist several gazillion now-aging "baby-boomers," ALL of
whom reached puberty and beyond with an accompaniment from *THE BEATLES*!
Virtually all of these folks went on to get MBA's and such, moved into 
high-paying
jobs, and now have MUCH more money than sense!!

The sad part is that all of these fundamental orifices will now go 
home...put the new
Beatles LP on their turntable (or the CD version in their player...?!)...and 
then roll up
and smoke a "joint" using 21st-century, highly-improved "weed!" About ten 
minutes
later, they will be trying to remember how many feet they have...?! (being 
unaware
of the "improvements" made in marijuana culture in recent years...?!)

And THESE were the folks who claimed to be opposed to all the pro-money
ideas of the fifties and early sixties...?!

SCROOM!!

Steven C. Barr
> But here's another thing.  I just got back from, among other places,
> WalMart.  They had a Maganavox BluRay player for $78 in the early bird
> specials before 11 AM and it was sold out on-line.  I was there at 1 PM
> and our store still had over 20 of these and the price was STILL $78.
> Maybe people are not THAT interested?   (I didn't get one because  I
> need one that can be region code hacked.   The LG combo HD-DVD/BluRay I
> already have CAN be hacked, but now Leah needs a hackable one.)
>
> BUT, despite those machines not being sold out,  I think the
> tipping-point price of BluRay players has been met, and this is now
> official as far as I am concerned: THE DVD IS DEAD.  BluRay will replace
> it 75% in less than 2 years, and 100% in three.   Downloads might kill
> off both BluRay and CD in five.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
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