Thursday, February 09, 2006

The Last Great Format War

(From The Yahoo Avid User's Group)

[Roll the newsreel footage.]

Whippersnappers!

I fought in the LAST great format war!

We had MII at NBC in 1987 -- now THAT was a war!

It's true that we lost (or more correctly, a lot of execs lost their jobs), but we fought mighty SONY at the bureaus, in the racks, on the chartered planes.

I love the smell of burning bakelite in the morning
(as the MII power supply burns out).

Smells like...victory (to me)!

[I too am a (former) MII evangalist! I used MII at CNBC from
1991-1992. Awful format, especially for audio.]

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