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Originally Posted by URY914
When I lived in Ft. Lauderdale I worked for the GC that handled all the work at the corporate offices downtown. This was in 1995-6. One day I'm asked to go up to Boca to another one of their buildings where they were working of future business models. When I asked what they do up there the person who I reported to with BB says to me, "Their working on some crazy internet movie stuff where you can order movies and watch anytime you want on your TVs. Sound pretty far fetched to me". Little did he know at the time....
Wayne Huizenga was a pretty ruthless businessman and also very successful. He used video rentals to build an empire and then moved on to AutoNation and sports team ownership.
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Understandable for those who don't understand Moores.
Mid 90's if you could stream SD at 15 FPS on a local network without significant compression artifacts and buffering you were cutting edge.
Of course that took a bleeding edge $10K pc and still looked like ****.