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Depends how you define failure and success...

You are using two different measurement criteria: profitability (ojective) and quality (subjective). There is value in both but from a business point of view surely the first ultimately determines success or failure. Only individuals, governments and charities can measure success by the second. I do not know the economics of the Laser Disc Venture, but a search came up with this: there are more than 1 million players in home use in the US (85 million VCRs and who know how many DVD's. DVD must be in 70-90% of households), and more than 4 million in Japan (10% of households). Source: totalrewind.org

Maybe the Laser disc has earned its initial development cost back, maybe it broke even. I think it probably generated a loss for the industry as a whole when you add everything up.

Jw


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  • Depends how you define failure and success... - Joel_Waterman 18:28:44 10/02/04 (0)


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