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

Posted by Jazz Inmate on February 20, 2009 at 20:00:46:
>> 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. <<

Public safety is not small potatoes.

>> Do you think college kids that were being prosecuted by the RIAA weren't small potatoes?

I think 99.9% of college kids (or anyone else) illegally downloading or copying music and not paying for it got away with it. Napster, however, was shut down and a few thousand kids were prosecuted to try to scare others straight.

>> Phelps certainly isn't small potatoes, he's rich and famous. <<

I meant small potatoes in the law sense. The DA who had the authority to charge him with breaking drug laws said he wouldn't because he had a backlog of cases involving dealers and more hardened criminals. In that respect, Phelps was indeed small potatoes and the DA said as much.

>> If that was me (small potatoes)in the picture, I'd be in jail. <<

Lots of people like you (Auph for example) get stoned as a matter of routine and don't go to jail.

>> Of course being you, you believe all sales hype. <<

It was Oppo's mission statement. Your idea of their mission is to bring foreign-region DVDs to your screen, but if you think that's really their mission, you're projecting (no pun intended).

>> 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. <<

Then you bought into the sales hype, not me.

>> Still going by profits I see. I'm still waiting for unit numbers. <<

Why? DVDs can sell out in the dollar bins and still not bring in the bucks that BDs will soon command. The writing is on the wall. Read it.

>> 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. <<

Importers cater to a small segment of the audience.

>> 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? <<

Of course they would. They're established international blockbusters.
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