On Thu, 9 Nov 1995, Tim Bass wrote:
are lacking a key ingredient: vision :
site, open up a window and look at the featured movies , or search the archives for something difficult to find and not quite as mainstream as the limited selection in Your Local Area Video Store.
Not likely.... Here's the vision. The video stores will operate humungo video caching servers with an ATM pipe to the franchise head office where *EVERY* movie ever made will be stored. You will be able to order any movie on the store's caching server and pick up a freshly made copy 20 minutes later. If they have to go to head office for it you will get it in 30 minutes. Since you have to go to the store anyway to stock up on potato chips, some drinks and to flirt with the pretty girl behind the counter this will be reason enough to pick up the tape. 20 years from now it will be just the same only using magneto-optical disks...
The possibilities are endless..... Only acute tunnel-vision-itis would affect someone to think that the video market is only for the healthy, young, pop culture types that cruise the local video store.
If those folks don't use VOD then it will be too expensive to implement a pervasive VOD network until videotel and videoconferencing have paid for the infrastructure. Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022 Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-542-4130 http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com