RE: [tlug] Re: [CoLoCo] RESPECT MICROSOFT

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Curt Sampson
> Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2007 9:06 PM
>
> First of all, I'm not sure where you get "still" from; it seems to
> me certain in the case of CDs, and very highly likely in the case of
> DVDs, that if there is any trend, it would be away from using consumer
> electronics devices and toward using computers to play media, rather
> than the reverse.

In this case, it is a quirck of coloquial speach.
Still as in, "even if this, there is still that."
Not as in dwindling numbers.



> Second, I'd like to see some support for your arugment that 
> the average consumer thinks of his computer as a DVD player at all.

What I say here comes from experience, not from reading.
Of the people I know that use computers, easily 90%+ use
their computers to play DVD's.  Of those that do, they would
not be inclined to purchase a computer without a DVD player.

It is even more common amonth military types than it is
among civilians though, where having a single device that
can do everything is a matter of whether or not there is
room to have it.  I will admit, as someone (I think it was
Josh) pointed out in another response to my post, that this
may color my views a bit.

Now with the current generation of computers, and the
focus on prebuilt media computers that can surf the
web and play movies on a large TV, this will become
even more common.

I could be wrong. ^^;;

-- 
Ken