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Re: [SLE] DVD Playback - Region Encoding
- From: Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 16:19:40 +0100
- Message-id: <200603191619.40891.andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>
On Sunday 19 March 2006 16:16, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> We were talking about HD TV, or digital TV, that doesn't have a global
> standard (DVD does, for the moment). The idea proposed was that it was to
> stop us (european) from buying tv sets and such from the us, which being a
> bigger market might be cheaper - even if our equipment is also made
> somewhere else.
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
Besides which, I was under the impression that HDTV would be a true global
standard
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> We were talking about HD TV, or digital TV, that doesn't have a global
> standard (DVD does, for the moment). The idea proposed was that it was to
> stop us (european) from buying tv sets and such from the us, which being a
> bigger market might be cheaper - even if our equipment is also made
> somewhere else.
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
Besides which, I was under the impression that HDTV would be a true global
standard
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Certified: Yes. Certifiable: of course!
jabber ID: anders@xxxxxxxxxx
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