Re: Seven Entries

kim wrote:
Yes, this is subject of huge interest to the <1% of readers with
HDMI-enabled plasma and LCD screens.

<1% of what readers? I would guess that a lot more than 1% of people
here would already have or be willing to consider buying the right
equipment if and when the software becomes available.

The same ratio of people in the broader population probably had
scart-enabled tellies back when dvd came out too.

My scart TV was already six years old before DVD came out.


Bully for you. What has that to do with the price of eggs?


And who's to say that everyone who will have the equipment will be
the only ones interested in hearing about it? And why should a lack
of users make for less of a reason that this place will 'pick up a
bit'? This place was never so exciting as it was in the early days
of dvd.

I'm one of many who have cancelled our subscriptions to glossy video
magazines because we are sick of reading about a format which isn't
available yet and we couldn't even use if it was.


I'm one of many who stopped reading all magazines on a regular basis. There
are far easier and cheaper ways to get good views than wasting money on
prejudiced so-called "expert" advertising/supplier-led targetted
information.
So I agree with some of what you say, but again it has nothing to do with
anything mentioned previously here.



...And are you the Kim that invented laserdiscs and cds and so much
more?

I've never made any such claim. My late grandfather "Frits" was
however chief engineer at Philips when the first LaserVision disc was
demonstrated. He wrote a book about it called "45 Years With
Philips". For some reason it was never a best seller?


This prompted me to search groups.google because I recall having a great
time reading your posts and watching you wriggle around as others pointed
how silly they were. You managed to duck around a lot of them in fairness.
Others were dodged by further even-more-silly non sequiters by you that
deflected attention to other directions.
From this one post I see you still adopt the same technique. Nice. :)

But, alas, I couldn't find one of the "better" ones in my brief search
(-does groups.google only go back as far as 1999?).
In your favour, I did find this post in 1999 where you deny claiming to have
invented laserdiscs, etc...
http://groups.google.com/group/uk.media.dvd/browse_frm/thread/adc3c02218257ef8/f8598a2b7a9a6e10?lnk=st&q=laserdisc+invent+kim+group%3Auk.media.dvd&rnum=3&hl=en#f8598a2b7a9a6e10

....I also recall an excellent website that someone did where he listed all
the occupations you had throughout your life. That was funny. :)


I seem to recall you predicting the imminent death of dvd back
around 1998.

Correct, and then went on to make a small fortune from selling it. My
business partners can take all of the credit for that. I doubt very
much I will repeat the experience with HD but am looking forward to
being proved wrong.


I ain't gonna rise to that bait. HD could well fail, but you predicted the
failure of just about every audio/video format ever released from what I can
see.
You're bound to be proven right at _some_ stage.

-Kevin.


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