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[blair1q]

kids might sit in front of a 17" screen and watch a movie but teenagers and adults just will not do it.....

There are two ways to counter this argument:

1. Computer monitors are often higher resolution than the highest-resolution broadcast HDTV standard. Hence their smaller size and higher cost. Some technophiles will only watch HD movies on their monitors, now.

2. Most mid- to high-end computer video cards come with S-video outputs; some come with component-video outputs; and you can get RF-output enabled cards as well. Likewise for the audio. Your computer becomes a very expensive DVD player for the few hours you're watching your movies. Then it goes back to being a very expensive calculator, telephone, mailbox, typewriter, and deck of cards.

Frankly, if DIG can pull this off, it might be the kick in the ass that the computer industry has been lacking over the past year. It could signal a new round of hardware upgrades, the way the proliferation of various types of online multimedia prompted everyone to trick-out their current machines.

--Blair
"I'm gonna get a lifetime subscription to George of the Jungle."

[The Original dpb5!]

Double Buy, why DIG should buy Yahoo....

Whether Yahoo is here five years from now, or not, what is important about investing in the internet is the ability to OWN the USERS of the DOMAINS!

Yahoo, based upon it's early entry into the Internet realm has developed a huge loyal following. Last I checked, I believe that Yahoo has well over TWICE the number of users who faithfully visit the Yahoo Domain each month than visit ALL of Disney Internet Group Websites.

By definition, the Internet is merely an INTERACTIVE Media Conglomerate. Prior to the internet, there was NO INTERACTIVITY. One simply read a newspaper or magazine, or viewed a television show, or listened to a radio. The Internet has changed all of that dramatically (as is evidenced by my typing of this post!).

DIG should buy Yahoo for the following reasons...
1)Yahoo's huge dedicated audience.
2)Yahoo's Internet Name "Brand Recognition...GLOBALLY!"
3)Yahoo caters to a more 'unfocused' (as in 'larger niche') of clientele.
4)Yahoo would hopefully add specific new 'nuances' to the struggle that Disney has had in forging an Internet "loyalty" on a regular basis.
5)We could post on the Yahoo DIG Board, and the 'hits' would count as DIG hits!

These are the top five reasons I think DIG should buy Yahoo....anybody have any other reasons?