On Monday 15 November 2004 5:06 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Monday 15 November 2004 23:51, Fred A. Miller wrote:
There isn't anything "odd" about it at all. There's a LOT of DVD drives less than a yr. old IN new boxes that won't read the double density discs.
Aren't most movies double layered? Are you saying they're selling players that can't play movies? Seems like a very risky business plan to me, that is after all the main reason most people buy a DVD player
Hi, Anders is right. The manfact. must design and build the device that meets the DVD specs set by the DVD consortium. It is the same for CD drives. Phillips and Sony, holders of the CD specs carefully guard the "Brand". That is why they threatened to withdraw the permission to call a product a CD or Compact Disc from those who wanted to break the standard for 'copy protection' reasons. If you run into a DVD drive that won't read a dual layer DVD, you have a broken drive! PeterB