From: John P. Looney (john at domain antefacto.com)
Date: Thu 09 Aug 2001 - 12:02:18 IST
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 11:51:51AM +0100, David Murphy mentioned:
> > Ten years ago, who would have believed you if you told them that
> > Film Studios would let you buy a film for £20 or so, and could
> > control what countries it could be watched in, so they could price
> > it more expensive in Europe than Africa or the US ?
> Anybody who looked at the price differential between NTSC and PAL VHS
> tapes?
At least you could buy a VCR that could play both. The DVD crowd are
withdrawing branding for any company that ship a player that can be
deregioned.
> > Tellin' ya. I'm still waiting to here that music studios are going
> > to support the pay-per-play AudioDVD, and stop making CDs/Tapes as
> > of two years time...
> Well, it didn't work for video:
> http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html#2.10
Not yet...but if all the studios pushed for a common format, it would
work. People are sheep. What killed Divx was that they had one player, and
15 movies.
Kate
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