JVC to shut videotape plant

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Post #125,685 by lincoln 11/14/03 12:29:55 PM Reply	JVC to shut videotape plant Tuscaloosa, Ala. --- JVC America will shut down its VHS tape production plant in Tuscaloosa by Jan. 31, the company announced. About 115 people will be laid off, said Brad Springer, vice president for finance and administration. He said JVC will provide severance packages and outplacement services for those laid off. The plant opened in October 1986 to produce VHS cassettes and tape. Springer said the loss of the VHS market to DVDs forced the plant to shut down. The company has compact disc and DVD plants in Tuscaloosa and Kennesaw that employ about 550 employees. I like DVDs, but videotapes still have a place in my entertainment world. Best part is, I can FAST FORWARD over the FBI warning and all of the previews that come before the movie, something you can't always do with a DVD. lincoln "Windows XP has so many holes in its security that any reasonable user will conclude it was designed by the same German officer who created the prison compound in "Hogan's Heroes." - Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times [link\|http://users3.ev1.net/~bconnors/resume.htm\|VB/SQL resume] [link\|http://users3.ev1.net/~bconnors/tandem_resume.htm\|Tandem resume] [link\|mailto:bconnors@ev1.net\|contact me]
Post #125,695 by ben_tilly 11/14/03 2:03:28 PM Reply	The inability to skip the warning is a legal requirement "good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not" - [link\|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html\|Stefano Mazzocchi]
Post #126,802 by tuberculosis 11/20/03 12:23:57 AM Reply	Yes, but they also prevent skipping some teasers Which is criminal IMO. Consider the man with a screaming toddler trying to get a kids movie on to distract the kid. Many DVD's have as much as 3 minutes of crap you can't skip and thats a LOOONG time when a kid is screaming in your ear. "I believe that many of the systems we build today in Java would be better built in Smalltalk and Gemstone." -- Martin Fowler, JAOO 2003
Post #125,708 by folkert 11/14/03 2:50:45 PM Reply	MY DVD player... Skips right past those... NO problems. for those who know the Voodoo chant: apt-get install gxine libdvdcss ; /usr/share/libdvdcss/installcss.sh -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey*

JVC to shut videotape plant - (lincoln) - (3) - Nov. 14, 2003, 12:29:55 PM EST

The inability to skip the warning is a legal requirement -NT - (ben_tilly) - (1) - Nov. 14, 2003, 02:03:28 PM EST

Yes, but they also prevent skipping some teasers - (tuberculosis) - Nov. 20, 2003, 12:23:57 AM EST

MY DVD player... - (folkert) - Nov. 14, 2003, 02:50:45 PM EST

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