mike wilson wrote: >> From: Sylwester Pietrzyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: 2008/02/24 Sun AM 12:21:36 GMT >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> >> Subject: Re: next week's news >> >> On 2008-02-23, at 19:20, mike wilson wrote: >> >> >>> IIRC, it was the same two companies involved in that battle as in >>> the videotape war. >>> >> No. Back then it was JVC (VHS), Sony (Beta) and Philips (V2000). Of >> course the worst of these systems (VHS) has won :-) >> > > I thought it was a merger of JVC and Panasonic. Not really (or even > slightly) important. > >
Matsushita did and still does owns all of Panasonic (in fact, the parent renamed itself as the child recently), and a large, though declining chunk of JVC. No, not really important. D -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
