Frank Wales > Andrew Bowden wrote: > > If everyone - and I mean everyone - made their DVD player > > multi-region, it would be far harder to justify making > > region-encoded DVDs. > DVD region coding rides on the coat-tails of different > international video standards, so I think pressure against > DVD region coding could never become very severe. > It's not enough that your DVD player be multi-region in order > to watch out-of-region discs, your TV also has to know what > to do with the signal. At least in North America, it's quite > hard to find multi-standard TVs, so a multi-region DVD player > could play a UK DVD, for example, but the TV wouldn't display > it because PAL wouldn't make sense to it.
Yeah, well North America is another thing, however region 2 is an entirely different matter - and it's a big region. Last time I bought a TV (four years ago IIRC) it was hard to find one that wasn't NTSC compatable in that price range. Now that was a £300 model. A couple of years later when I had to buy a new DVD player, I got a £70 model (DVD/VHS combi) which was towards the budget end - again NTSC compatable seemed to be the norm. Looking at Comet's website right now, NTSC is available on the cheapest DVD player, and whilst not on the cheapest TVs, is on a 20" model at the £79.99 price mark. Of course, many will still have non NTSC compatable equipment so it will take time. Interestingly, you do get some NTSC region 2 DVDs already. For some reason, season 1 of Sex and the City is NTSC! http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sex-City-Region-NTSC-Format/dp/B00005IBA0/sr=8-14/qid=1170408000/ref=pd_ka_14/202-6428698-3405436?ie=UTF8&s=dvd - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
