From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Mon Dec 21 1998 - 00:29:15 EST
Ron..
i agree with you, but oil companies don't encode the gasoline so it will only work
on cars built in the USA or UK or Argentina..
gas is gas and it'll work in most any car..
this was my only disagreement with that parallel..
as far as DIVX goes, i won't buy one, ever.. never.. nor will i buy a DIVX
player.. or a dual DVD/DIVX player..
i don't even bother to copy VHS tapes, i rent one from time to time, then send
them back..
i buy one when its about $10 and if the movie is one i would watch again.. (very
very few qualify for this)..
when video tapes first came out, movies were $100 and the tapes were $25~, so it
paid for people to make bootleg copies..
now the cost enables easy acquisition of legit copies..
soon DVDF/DIVX writers will be available, thenm the costs will come down to where
its not cost effective to make a copy, just eithjer rent one or buy it or wait for
the network tv release.. :-)
Ron Heiby wrote:
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> At 01:24 AM 12/20/98 -0500, Bill Morrow wrote, in response to my comparison
> with gasoline and motor oil standards:
> >Bad parallel..!
>
> How so?
>
> Studios own movies. Consumer Electronics companies produce devices that allow
> consumers to use those movies. Oil companies own oil. Auto companies produce
> devices that allow consumers to use that oil.
>
> Studios work with C.E. companies on standards for interoperability between
> movies and devices. Oil and Auto companies work together on standards for
> interoperability between oil and vehicles.
>
> How is it OK for oil companies and auto companies to get together to decide on
> the standards for gasoline, but it is not OK for movie companies and C.E.
> companies to get together to decide on standards for movie distribution media?
>
> If someone thinks that the region code stuff is illegal, they should provide
> some reference to the law(s) being violated. If someone think that it is
> wrong, and not just inconvenient for those of us who would like to import DVDs
> from some other region, then they should explain exactly how it is wrong /
> wicked / evil / immoral / etc.
>
> If the region code crap is inconvenient enough that people refuse to buy DVDs
> because of it, then the studios will come to their senses and stop using that
> mechanism on the movies they produce. If people buy the movies anyway, then it
> must not be all that inconvenient to enough of the movie purchasing public,
> and they will continue to use it. So, the obvious solution is to stop buying
> region coded DVDs, and try to convince others that the inconvenience of not
> being able to import a movie from somewhere else over-weighs the benefits of
> the DVD format.
>
> BTW, I think that DIVX is a *FAR* worse abomination than region codes. If we
> are going to spend cycles fighting against stupid and inconvenient schemes by
> movie studios to maximize their profit, then we should be spending them
> fighting DIVX.
>
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> Ron.
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