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Posted by the dog from that film you saw on 10/22/05 10:36
"Pyriform" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> Ed wrote:
>> The point of the original post ws the panasonic man blamed the uk
>> government for placing higher import duty on a machine with dv in.
>> Everyone else here has pointed to the legislation being european, so
>> that totally voids his argument because the european versions DO have
>> a dv in, according to the instruction manuals you can downoad from the
>> panasonic site.
>
> I'm not quite sure why you are directing this at me. I was merely
> responding to a poster who seems to think there exists some bizarre
> general-purpose "feature tax" on electronic devices. I think he might be
> confused about the differing roles of marketing departments and
> legislatures.
>
there is a 'feature tax' though - in that if there is dv in it gets a
certain tax, and by disabling it, the tax falls to a lower level.
even though the machine is identical and altered only in firmware.
another example - a monitor with DVI input as well as analogue will attract
a higher tax than one which is analogue only.
--
Gareth.
my Dad took me out for the evening and some girl was being a right
embarrassment
trying to get off with him, i had to pretend that i was his girlfreind
so that the stupid bitch would leave him alone, and we had a right
good laugh ahout it too.
'varizo' 26th Nov 04
http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/dsbmusic/
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