When DVDs hit the scene, the quality was unparalleled.
We got an early DVD player, and it was pretty cool – not too big, the size of a VCR, but decent.
The first time we rented a DVD (because that is what you did), it had one small scratch, and we couldn’t watch the movie.
(Also, how pro walking into a rental store and skipping over the cassettes and going straight to the DVDs).
Over the years, performance against scratches and nicks got better, and to get that better performance, you had to buy a new machine with a better optical reader.
C’est la vie – to get the good stuff, you had to wait for the trials and the errors to work themselves out so you could make this work. By the end, I’d have DVDs that were scratched all over that could play brilliantly.
It was the only time I was an early adopter and decided I could wait for v2 to come out later.
V1 is always getting to the market, V2 is stabilizing the offering, V3 is delivering what you wanted to do in V3.
I’m a V3 kinda guy.