-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2006-03-19 at 12:08 -0000, Kevanf1 wrote:
Unfortunately, there are also several new HD standards. I'm unsure how many, but there is at least one for Europe, another in the US, another in Japan, probably another in China...
The cynic in me says that this has been done as a way to stop people [in Europe] getting cheap hardware from the US. A similar thing as the DVD region coding.
X-) Think about cheap eastern tv sets ;-) But no, I don't think so, in this case. Not so simple, anyway. There are many interests involved. For example, you have to pay to use certain standard... which is a reason for others to develop their own different standard, and defeating the purpose of standards (am I getting a Marx brothers complex? :-p ) - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFEHVObtTMYHG2NR9URAuC1AJ9Il6TAEIiZ8FC9v5jMlHkjo4MkiQCfQ9T2 9WfpONq82gZu8oGXjgcAjSY= =KVTj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----