> > May i suggest you take a look at the many UK electronics web
sites..and get > stuff shipped. > We are blessed with being the last place
in the world for movies and tv > shows to get released, so demand has
built here for many multi-standard > devices (ie nearly all UK tv's and
vcr's now play american standard off the > shelf without modification.)We
also have world standard vcr's etc from all > the far east brands. >
thank
you for the info, don't know if it's terribly useful (unless the dollar
becomes extremely strong against the pound. One would probalby have to pay
customs duties too on anything that much). AMazon.com has one for US$500
but back ordered last time I looked. But....Sucky you know that when DVDs
were invented they WENT OUT OF THEIR WAY to make them incompatible in
different countries (region encoding) to stop piracy, where as with tapes,
the PAL/NTSC difference was just hiistorical accident.
The Internet though, is erasing the differences between countries. (i've
read articles advising that if you want to set up a web store you have to
expect hits from overseas and if you are not set up for international
business people will get frustrated) Still, regionalism is strong.
economically speaking you can treat the EU almost like one country but
there is still an ocean metaphorical as well as literal between the UK and
the USA.
Oh well.
I'm wearing a sweater I got for my B-Day made from washable Merino wool
spun by Zegna Baruffa in Italy...knit together in Latvia. Ah, global
sourcing. ALl the jobs moving to cheaper nations.
Oh well.
Kristin
Does wool yearn for its ancestral home?
