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Michael Dillon <michael@junction.net> wrote:

> I wonder how long the national video store chains will take to catch on 
> to this. Imagine, you order up your video (something NOBODY has in stock) 
> and the video store downloads it and makes a tape on a high speed 
> replicator. 20 minutes later you pick up the video and then stop next 
> door to pick up the pizza.

> Of course, the high speed replicators will be useful when everybody and 
> his brother wants to rent the latest and greates all-hyped hit movie. 
> Just make more copies. This is the way it should be.


To my knowledge there is no such animal as a "high speed replicator" that
can write a normal SP VHS cassette in 20 minutes (6x speed).  That would
be more realistic with disc technology, but even there it's still beyond
the current state of the art.  Real time video on demand over cable to the
home using MPEG-2 is the more likely delivery vehicle for the forseeable
future IMHO, and that's a threat to the local video store *if* studios
permit new releases to be delivered that way.  (The bulk of video store
profits come from rentals prior to pay per view release.)  Frankly, I think
that's doubtful unless the video on demand system includes some form of
anti-recording technology (the lack of which is a reason that pay per view
releases lag tape releases). 

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Best regards,
John  <JNavas@Netcom.com>