Re: You nailed it in your first sentence

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Posted by Dalancroft on July 30, 2003 at 10:15:46

In Reply to: Re: You nailed it in your first sentence posted by caa on July 30, 2003 at 09:05:23:

Two rejoinders:

1) If "average Joe Sixpack" really cared about quality, GM would be out of business, Budweiser wouldn't be the best-selling beer, and McDonald's would be in bankruptcy. Nor would Bose and those execrable "home-theater-in-a-box" systems be flying off the shelves from Best Buy, Circuit City, et. al. Or Wal-Mart be able to foist tens of billions of dollars of Chinese-made junk off on blindly acquisitive consumers.

2) Much as with the conversion from LPs to CDs, consumers' adoption of DVDs is as much for the convenience and durability of the medium as anything else. Across America, many, many DVD players are outputting signal through an RF converter to a standard (and probably older) direct view TV and being listened to on a TV's speakers. Not exactly a quantum leap in quality from VCRs and cable boxes.

As for your statement, "One shouldn't blame the nameless 'joe-sixpack's' for his or her incompetence to produce a more than average quality product," I have no idea what the hell you're talking about. Are you referring to manufacturing (0% of which is done in the U.S.) or the consumer's ability to build a "more than average" home theater system given their lack of knowledge on the subject? (Which, of course, goes back to my point that perhaps 3-5%, and certainly not more than 10%, of American households boast what could be described as an "above average" audiovisual system capable of displaying the poor audio and/or visual quality to which John C. refers?)

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Topic - Why are some DVDs (of music content) so relatively poor in quality? - John C. - Aussie 17:49:12 07/29/03 (13)

Hey John, still enjoying your HLD-X9 player? - Michael 13:59:53 07/30/03 (7)

Yes, and I'm having the audio output modified - John C. - Aussie 15:22:33 07/30/03 (6)

Re: Yes, and I'm having the audio output modified - IPY 13:20:50 08/01/03 (3)

HLD-X9 - rbest1_97@yahoo.com 18:41:26 08/15/03 (1)

Re: HLD-X9 - rbest1_97@yahoo.com 09:28:38 09/01/03 (0)

Have not detected any improvement in the video - John C. - Aussie 16:16:56 08/01/03 (0)

Re: Yes, and I'm having the audio output modified - Michael 19:41:19 07/30/03 (1)

Smearing & the change over to s-VHS - John C. - Aussie 16:05:04 07/31/03 (0)

You nailed it in your first sentence - Dalancroft 08:06:02 07/30/03 (4)

Re: You nailed it in your first sentence - caa 09:05:23 07/30/03 (3)

Re: You nailed it in your first sentence - Dalancroft 10:15:46 07/30/03 (2)

the gullibility of the common man - Some Guy 06:00:35 07/31/03 (1)

Mostly agree -- one disagreement - Dalancroft 11:17:49 07/31/03 (0)

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Re: You nailed it in your first sentence - Dalancroft 10:15:46 07/30/03 (2)

the gullibility of the common man - Some Guy 06:00:35 07/31/03 (1)

Mostly agree -- one disagreement - Dalancroft 11:17:49 07/31/03 (0)

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