You can bet your arse that the people running those corporations will be the ones that are making a killing in the U.S.A. now. I wonder if your warm fuzzy feeling will extend to the millions of ordinary Americans who would be up shit creek if your future vision came to fruition?
Good Sci-Fi is a niche market. Babylon 5, S.A.A.B. Farscape, all great Sci-Fi but they never had a mass audience. You really can't have your cake and eat it too when it comes to Sci-Fi. The vast majority of viewers are happy watching soap operas where you don't have to think. Sci-Fi on the other hand (or at least good Sci-Fi) requires a modicum of brain power and is generally the preserve of geeky\techy types.
I am a dimwit and incompetent, so is my mother and neither of us has an A+ Cert so get your facts right!!!
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I was unfortunate enough to purchase a CDD2600. I had 3 replacement units within a year and the last died 10 days after the warranty expired (none of the drives managed to write more than 50 cds). The Company I purchased the drive from had also ceased trading so I was up the proverbial creek. I think Philips are getting exactly what they deserve. I only hope that European users, myself included, can get our money back\unit replaced. BTW the drive was installed in a 5 1/4" bay with nothing but air either side of it. A TEAC cdr now sits where it used to live and has pumped out about 400 cds with no problems whatsoever. Blaming the users for poor installation is a well known "cop out" for any company when its substandard products start to go wrong.
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It's a hard enough job to find intelligent life on THIS planet. How much harder is it going to be to find it elsewhere in the universe??? :)
You can bet your arse that the people running those corporations will be the ones that are making a killing in the U.S.A. now. I wonder if your warm fuzzy feeling will extend to the millions of ordinary Americans who would be up shit creek if your future vision came to fruition?
Good Sci-Fi is a niche market. Babylon 5, S.A.A.B. Farscape, all great Sci-Fi but they never had a mass audience. You really can't have your cake and eat it too when it comes to Sci-Fi. The vast majority of viewers are happy watching soap operas where you don't have to think. Sci-Fi on the other hand (or at least good Sci-Fi) requires a modicum of brain power and is generally the preserve of geeky\techy types.
I am a dimwit and incompetent, so is my mother and neither of us has an A+ Cert so get your facts right!!!
I was unfortunate enough to purchase a CDD2600. I had 3 replacement units within a year and the last died 10 days after the warranty expired (none of the drives managed to write more than 50 cds). The Company I purchased the drive from had also ceased trading so I was up the proverbial creek. I think Philips are getting exactly what they deserve. I only hope that European users, myself included, can get our money back\unit replaced. BTW the drive was installed in a 5 1/4" bay with nothing but air either side of it. A TEAC cdr now sits where it used to live and has pumped out about 400 cds with no problems whatsoever. Blaming the users for poor installation is a well known "cop out" for any company when its substandard products start to go wrong.