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When the CD came along, a lot of us were nervous: You mean we'll have to get rid of our LPs and tapes? You mean we'll have to re-buy? But the pure convenience of a CD soon won us over, even if a few of us were suspicious about that sound -- which seemed to come from nowhere, ungrounded.
Now the DVD is upon us, in spades, and videocassettes will perhaps go the way of the dodo (or the LP, for that matter). The DVD -- a shiny little disc just like the CD -- is an inarguable blessing. One can skip around, just as on a CD, with no tiresome reversing or fast-forwarding. The DVD is mainly a bonanza for movies, I suppose -- just as with a videocassette -- but ...