From: Ad 

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


> Rich
>
>
>     "Ad"      > wrote in message
>     news:45b467a9$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>     Rich wrote:
>      >    Nonsense.  Region coding, encryption (e.g. CSS), expiring content
>      > (e.g. DivX) are examples that existed without pre-existing
>     support from
>      > software vendors.  These and the other forms of restrictions all
>     exist
>      > because the content providers require it.  Microsoft, Apple, real as
>      > well as CE vendors (e.g. Pioneer, Creative, Apple) support it only
>      > because it is required to even play the game.  Without it you can
>     only
>      > sit on the outside and watch.
>      >
>
>     No region coding restrictions on my DVD player. Consumers here simply
>     wouldn't buy the boxes with region coding built in & thus manufacturers
>     dropped it.
>
>     NB they dropped it & yet they're not sitting on the outside
& watching.
>
>     Adam

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