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to: Ad
from: Randy
date: 2007-01-23 00:15:36
subject: Re: Content protection

From: Randy 

Ad wrote:
> Rich wrote:
>>    Good for you.  Yet in the U.S. the devices do have region coding
>> and millions of them are selling.  Hasn't seemed to slow much down.
>> And your devices still have CSS so they are clearly not sitting on the
>> outside at all.
>>
>
> Shrug a minority market accepts region coding. The majority do not. The
> same will apply to the blue lazer disks or they won't gain much market
> traction & the the manufacturers will start making the machinery the
> market wants as opposed to the machinery the producers want.
>
> Either that or the Chinese will come in from the side & screw both
> hd-dvd & blueray.
>
> Adam

Given the poor adoption rate and the paucity of DVD-Audio and SACD media, I
expect the same kind of adoption rate for the competing HD Video formats.

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