CompuServe Messages

>I asked someone there and got the answer: People don't want it. [Encyclopedia Britannica on CD-ROM] >In 1886 (I think) Carl Benz invented the first automobile. Noone wanted it. And back when silent films were the thing, one of the movie studio greats, Warner or Goldwyn perhaps, said "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" I think it's about disc space really. Grolier is able to fit a whole encyclopedia on disc because the articles are all pretty short; Britannica must be three times the wordage at least. And they'd have to do a major multimedia piece of work to compete with Grolier and Encarta – more disc space. I think they're waiting for better compression.