Audioholics: Reasons Why HD-DVD Formats Have Already Failed

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06-19-07, 03:04 PM

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Rusty James

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Laserdisc was a failure in the US. It had relatively zero mass appeal.

Anyone who owned a laserdisc player would beg to differ.

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06-19-07, 03:08 PM

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Anyone who owned a laserdisc player would beg to differ.

You can't differ with the fact that it had no mass appeal. Which was all he was saying.

It was a successful niche item, which kept many enthusiast happy. But it failed to catch on in the mainstream like DVD has. Seems pretty simple.

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