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RE: If he was correct, Oppo would be releasing a region-free player

Posted by Jack G on February 20, 2009 at 05:03:39:
>>>What makes you so sure they would have been shut down? They could have just been small potatoes, doing more good than harm to the stakeholders<<<
Small potatoes doesn't matter. Mom and Pop farmers selling umpasturized (but fresh from the cow) milk are getting shut down despite being small potatoes. Do you think college kids that were being prosecuted by the RIAA weren't small potatoes?

>>>. Michael Phelphs wasn't prosecuted for smoking pot (thereby becoming even more of a hero to Auph), but would you say he didn't break the rules?<<<
Phelps certainly isn't small potatoes, he's rich and famous. If that was me (small potatoes)in the picture, I'd be in jail.

>>>Doesn't say anything about being formed to ignore region encoding rules.<<<
Of course being you, you believe all sales hype. I have their first model, back when they only had one, it was sold specifically as a multi-region player-that was listed as a feature.

>>>look at the buying habits of the public...The average consumer has never bought a DVD region-encoded outside the region where he lives.<<<
You are probably right-I'll drive over to the nearest McDonald's and ask them.
>>>Meanwhile, BDs are still fairly new and already achieving double-digit portions<<<
Still going by profits I see. I'm still waiting for unit numbers.

>>>show me which of your import DVDs can claim such numbers.<<<
How do you think importers/distributors know what to import for R1? They look at what movies people like and are importing here from other regions. Do you really think the Vengeance Trilogy or the Infernal affairs trilogy would have been made into R1 if they weren't already hits as imports from other regions?
Are they as popular as Spiderman or Batman? No, but just because McDonald's sells alot of hamburgers, doesn't mean people should abandon 5 star restaurants.
Jack