Re: Online Car Manuals

On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 18:57:33 +0000, Peter Hill
<peter.usenet1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 15:41:10 GMT, "AstraVanMan"
><Peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> I don't have a computer in my garage, using my computer to download and
>>> print car manuals would inevitably lead to my computer becoming dirty and
>>> grease ridden too.
>>
>>Bollocks.
>>
>>> Any downloadable manual is going to have some similar DRM nonsense.
>>
>>Maybe.
>>
>>> Down with downloadable manuals! Book is best! Hurrah for books! Long
>>> live the book!
>>
>>Fool.
>
>All it needs a change of media format to something incompatible and a
>few years later all those CD's are unreadable. All it needs is the
>8cm DVD to be made standard and the 12cm DVD and CD's will be
>un-useable. If multi GB CF or other memory cards get as cheap as a CD
>there could be a move to them instead. You can easily get a whole CD
>on to a 1GB CF card in CDaudio format and close to 9 boxed CF cards
>into the space of one CD case. 4Gb is close to DVD size and would
>hold a film without all the directors bits. Price 1/2's every 18
>months or less, so about 10 years time.
>
Yes, except that we're getting used to format changes and drive space is
now so cheap it's easy enough to rip the contents of a disc to HDD
before installing the new media. You're right that CD will eventually
become obsolete but I think it will be with us for a good few years yet;
don't forget DVD drives will also read CDs and the capacity of a DVD is
far from being eclipsed. CF is too intricate & relatively fragile to get
that cheap, but SD or something along those lines might cut it
eventually.
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Regards, Chris (Please take out my car to reply by email)
----1961 Austin A40 Farina----1966 Triumph Herald Estate---
---1967 Riley Elf---1965 Hillman Minx---1969 Morris Minor--
-1972 Mini Clubman estate--1957 Standard 8--1979 Ford Capri
--------1966 Triumph 1300 FWD-----1978 Mini 1000-----------
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