Re: Delphi 2005 and DVD availability

From: Alan Garny (someone_at_somewhere.com)
Date: 12/14/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:36:27 -0000

"David Farrell-Garcia" <davidf@orcasoftware.com> wrote in message
news:41bf1fe6$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Ingvar Nilsen wrote:
>
>> They have rarely sold any CD only machine in 2004
>> DVDs became the standard 2-3 years ago.
>
> Ingvar. I think you may have misunderstood some of the posts.
> Virtually ALL new machines sold here in the USA include DVD players.
> However, not ALL developers have new machines. Many developers are
> still working off machines that are several years old, before DVD
> became common. CD is still the lowest common denominator. DVD players
> will read both CD and DVD while CD players will play only CD. Not only
> that but, most mainstream consumer application installations are not
> large enough to even use all the space available on a CD much less a
> DVD. Very few tool vendors offer their product on DVD today but it
> will change. Give it a couple more years.

In the BDN survey, when I answered it, 69% of us said to have a DVD
player...

    Alan.

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