I disagree because there are DVD hardware and software licensing issues and these region codings issues are part of those licensing AGREEMENTS. jco
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Roberts Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 4:16 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: RE: OT - for those of you who have DVD equipthatcanplayPALsystemDVD's Tom C wrote: >I don't think it's a legal issue. It's an issue of how the industry >has decided to market to us. This is true. The movie industry has convinced the makers of DVD players to cooperate with the "region" scheme (for the most part), and likewise the major retailers, because they need each other to a large extent. The convergent interests of these organizations make it beneficial for them to follow the region code scheme. Smaller businesses like world-import.com are willing to forego the cooperation of the movie industry so they're free to sell multi-region players. The law doesn't enter into it. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
