>>>>>>Asserting that "the very existence of the region coding scheme would make sales of non region 1 coded DVD players in the USA not possible for the scheme to work" is a >>>>>>simple argument. It's sort of like like suggesting that the existence of speed signs and the laws pertaining to speeding will prevent people from exceeding the speed >>>>>>limit.
NO, it wont prevent ALL illegal sales or importation from occuring (its not clear to me which or if both may be illegal in some way) but it would prevent the large chains from selling them wouldn't it? They dont do gray or black market stuff which is what these would be if it's not legal to sell these non region coded 1 players in the USA. jco -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Digital Image Studio Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 11:09 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT - for those of youwho haveDVD equipthat can playPAL systemDVD's On 21/04/07, J. C. O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > huh, I DID provide non-anectodal evidence, > **None of the major retailers sell them** > and **the very existance of the region coding > scheme** would make sales of non region 1 > coded DVD players in the USA not possible > for the scheme to work. Those are simple > arguments. Well obviously I'm not a resident of the US so I'm not sure of what you mean when you refer to "the major retailers" but it's fact that there are a lot of retailers within the US that do sell non-region coded DVD players. Whether they are breaking laws in doing so surely is up to the government prosecutors. Asserting that "the very existence of the region coding scheme would make sales of non region 1 coded DVD players in the USA not possible for the scheme to work" is a simple argument. It's sort of like like suggesting that the existence of speed signs and the laws pertaining to speeding will prevent people from exceeding the speed limit. > .And IF you honestly think the > football tape "argument" was actually > a valid argument in this discussion > you would be as big a MORON as he is > for trying to say it was or actually > trying to get anyone to believe it was..... I never said it was, it was merely entertaining. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- 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
