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We are talking formats here and not businesses. Thousands of businesses can
compete under the umbrella of one format. The landscape is full of examples
of the benefits which a decision (which you call monopoly) offers. The first
that comes to mind is broadcasting. You would not have broadcasting without
a decision having been made on a format . The FCC was called into being as a
result of a wildcat atmosphere were no standards were yet employed. The FCC
was formed by public and professional demand to manage the spectrum in order
to protect against interferences from one business user to the other and to
set a broadcast standard (in radio first) so that both transmission and
reception specifications were exactly known and could be fabricated in
quantity. You can argue that such a stern means for making things work is
excessive, but it's what has worked. Standards are needed to provide
sufficient confidence for fabricators to build large quantities of anything
that requires cooperative parts to function. That is how a decision (which
you call monopoly) does good. Out of that good grows many more things which
we treasure (like programming in this broadcast example).
dc
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> Without getting into the pros and cons of either format, I might rephrase
> your question to ask "how can something destructive to competition in the
> marketplace do any good?"
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> kw
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> From: "Dale Cripps" <
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> To: "HDTV Magazine Tips List" <
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> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 2:14 AM
> Subject: Re: HD DVD
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>> How will doing something destructive to the creative community do any
>> good? Just because you don't like what the distribution folks have
>> decided is no reason to boycott a movie made by a creative personality.
>> What if that movie you no longer finance, and so doesn't get made, were
>> meaty enough to dry the eyes of your own family and reveal hope where
>> there was none before?
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>> dc
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>>> As of the Warner Brothers announcement, I have informed Toshiba and
>>> Warner Brothers that I refuse to buy anything with the Warner Brothers
>>> label.
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>>> Toshiba HD DVD rules at my house.
>>>
>>> Ken Weimer
>>> Conyers, Ga.
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