Comment MSFT also said Vista was a success (Score 1) 262
"Microsoft Makes Another "Nearly Sold Out" Claim For the Surface Line"
Microsoft also said Vista was a success....
Comment Re:BBC used to wipe all their shows (Score 1) 158
This was a short sighted and incredibly stupid move by the BBC as well U.S. broadcasting corporations at the time.
Oh, come off it. You can only say it was short-sighted and stupid NOW, given you live in a culture where everything is designed from the ground up to be painfully target-marketed and re-sold over and over again as kajillion-disc box sets. But back before the entire concept of home consumer video was invented, nobody could reasonably be expected to even conceive of the idea that, in fifty years, this one very specific programme out of the hundred or so other nondescript programmes they shoved onto the airwaves will be a runaway hit AND that people will have near-ubiquitous access to watch it repeatedly in their homes at their leisure, all using technology that, at the time, was either completely absurd to think of, cost obscene amounts of money, and/or took up way too much physical space to be practical in any way, shape, or form.
It's like saying that, in Edison's and Tesla's time, they were so incredibly short-sighted and stupid to not just use nuclear power plants to generate electricity. Or that Edison should've just come up with the iPhone's camera instead of wasting his time with the kinetoscope.
Consumer video? Ever hear of reruns? Reruns were already popular on TV by the 1960's. Maybe reruns didn't exist in your country, but they were popular here in the States. If we followed your line of reasoning...All time classics like "The Honeymooners" , "I Love Lucy", "Superman" and other classic shows from the 50's, 60's and 70's would have been ended up in the trash compactor because 'consumer video' wasn't invented yet.
Comment BBC used to wipe all their shows (Score 2) 158
BBC used to wipe all their shows. Which means after airing it once, they would erase or record the tapes over with something else with no thought to archiving them for future generations. This was a short sighted and incredibly stupid move by the BBC as well U.S. broadcasting corporations at the time . Thus hundreds and thousands of hours of valuable, classic entertainment were erased and gone forever with the flick of a switch based on poorly conceived management decisions. Much of Johnny Carson's classic Tonight Show from the 50's to the 60's were also wiped as well as many other classic shows including sports shows like the Super Bowl and the World Series.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiping
The subject of wiping is not limited to just video tape. The worst management decision of all time had to be when the suits at ABC/Dunhill decided to throw entire master recording tapes in the garbage to save a little money in the early 70's. Thus original session tapes, multi-tracks, outtakes and master single mixes were just thrown away, gone forever. This was done without informing the artists or their management.
This is why you will never hear original master recordings by Three Dog Night, Steppenwolf or The Mama and the Papas . All that remained were the analog album masters which were mastered and Equalized for vinyl. Hell even the single mix of "Magic Carpet Ride" is a different take altogether than the album version and the single mix is only available on the original 45 rpm vinyl and no master exists of the single mix.
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