Hi andrew.

21-Jun-04 06:45:18, andrew clarke wrote to All


 ac> *mildly on-topic alert*

 ac> Hi All,

 ac> With Today Tonight recently doing a story on set top DVD recorders
 ac> (cheap and nasty models starting from around $450), I estimate
 ac> it'll be only a year or so before the mums and dads of Australia
 ac> will begin to replace the family VCR when they get to around the
 ac> $300 mark.  I have to wonder though, after all a family's video
 ac> tapes have been converted to DVD, what will happen to the video
 ac> tapes? Can they be used for anything else?

Haloween streamers?

Recycled?   prolly can, they're about 80% plastic, the rest is mgnetic
oxides and a few bits of actual metal.

ac> Throwing them in the bin seems like a real waste

 ac> Also, an announcement was made recently about HD DVD writers (with
 ac> discs holding up to 30 Gb) to start appearing in the next year or
 ac> so.  Although, by then an entry level PC's hard disk drive will
 ac> probably hold 200 Gb..

Noone has proven Moore's law wrong yet.

 -=> Bye <=-

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