> From: "Bob Ammerman" > > The one area that could be construed as dubious is that it reduces > revenues > > for the local distributors who wish to fob us off with sub-standard > > reproductions of films we wish to watch. Quite frankly, if they reacted a > > little bit more sensibly - for example, by producing discs of equivalent > > quality to R1 releases - then the demand for modchips would disappear. > > This is a very weak argument. The correct response is to just not buy > product that is viewed as inferior. The marketplace will eventually get it > right. I think you could argue that this is exactly what is happening - just that the market in this case is international. People are not buying the inferior R2 selections, instead they are using those essentially internationalising market devices the credit card and net retailing to get from the market the product they desire. Just to muddy the waters a little more, I'm told that on many DVD players sold in the UK the region settings can be changed by entering a code into the remote control. Cheers, Andy (non-DVD owner) -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu