> > >>I understand your words. However, if you don't know something for >sure, > >>i.e., you only think it may be the case, then why strenuously argue >the > >>>issue? > >Because thats MY HONEST BELIEF >based on everything I have ever >heard in my entire life on the topic. I dont >have to know "for sure" to know >what I beleive because it seems >to me you dont know "for sure" >the contrary or do you? > >
Do you believe everything you hear? I assume when I purchase something at a legitimate retail outlet that the product I'm purchasing is legally being sold to me and it's legal for me to use it. That is the most logical assumption one can make. It's also logical to assume that if 99.9% of potential DVD watchers in America don't care about non-region 1 DVD's that the major retailers will not stock them or players to view them with. I don't know if there's a legal issue preventing them from stocking or selling them or not. It's the same principle as purchasing an exotic fruit or spice. My supermarket does not carry it because not enough people care about it. I must go to a specialty to store to find it. Why would I think it was illegal for the specialty store to sell the item just because the supermarket chain does not? >You or no one else on this forum >has provided me >with anything to change that belief >based on the 10 years of DVD >experience/involvement I have. > You can take a horse to water but you can't make him drink. >Regarding those players you just mention, >I dont BELIEVE those were meant for >distribution in the USA, they would >be in the major chains if they were. >I believe those are being sold >on a gray or black market here, probably >intended for those countries where >region coding is not peritted by new >laws as some other posters have noted. > And? So...? What's that have to do with whether they are legal for sale here or not? Gray-market items certainly are. >Until >I hear otherwise from trusty sources or see them being sold >at the major U.S. chains, my belief will >not change on the matter. Is that clear enough >for you? > > >jco > Clear as a ding-dong bell. Tom C. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
