-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2006-03-19 at 15:04 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 19 March 2006 13:08, Kevanf1 wrote:
The cynic in me says that this has been done as a way to stop people [in Europe] getting cheap hardware from the US.
I can think of many words to describe US technology, but cheap would not be one of them. Most US companies have their stuff manufactured in the far east now, to get away from the high cost of production (of course the same is true for Europe)
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. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFEHXXitTMYHG2NR9URAlRZAJ9nYq/hZ1Ss/R+c1UaspDB1BP2jbwCgjuUY WxUqCSL9/i89Uj5UA/DbxM0= =pAYd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----