Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3100 mails)

[Kevanf1 <kevanf1@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 19/03/06, Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> So you mean the tech companies would voluntarily make their production process
> more complex and expensive by having to have multiple production lines for
> different markets, just so they can charge $20 extra from European customers?
>
> Doesn't seem very likely

See my other mail,  but.... going on what I do know about PCs it is
likely to be far more than $20US difference.  Add a nought to that
figure and you are nearer the mark.

> Besides which, I was under the impression that HDTV would be a true global
> standard
>

I understand that there are already at least two different versions of
HDTV.  I have even seen them for sale over here in the UK.  Yet HDTV
has not even started to be broadcast :-O

This complexity is already being played out (yet again) with the two
differing versions of the new generation of DVD.  We have Blu Ray and
HD DVD.  So, the manufacturers will indeed try different standards and
hope that theirs wins out.  In the meantime, we, the customer, lose
out.

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