Question, why did DVD succeed when earlier RCA CED and Laserdisc bombed?

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The price. And the size. D.V.D.'s could be played in computers too and could be used as a media storage (not for only movies).
But the big problem is that as bigger the quantity of infromation stored on a optical disc, the nastyer scracthes can be. But most people dind't considered this aspect.
I hated D.V.D.'s. Because I had to get a player for them and they killed V.H.S. I liked them at a while, not I may not say that I hate them, but they aren't a big passion for me. And since they where replaced by another technologies, they didn't had the time to make a lot of fans, like other tehcnonogie did. Of, and a lot of people had them, so they wheren't something of a extraordinary... if you show somebody a L.D., C.E.D., V.H.D. there are chances that that person will be amazed - a guy was really shocked when he saw a LaserDisc.
In the end, D.V.D. is really Dead, Very Dad.

And copywright protection... sometimes it work, sometimes no. Before the days when the internet becamed cheaper and avaible to more people + the connectionspeed increased, D.V.D. copying transefring to C.D. or D.V.D. was a business in Romania!

Ed in Tx , can you please tell us more about the days when you operated an 7280 L.D. player?