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Posted by Pyriform on 10/22/05 17:16
the dog from that film you saw wrote:
> "Pyriform" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote
>> 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.
Not my point. He implied that *every* additional feature of an
electronic device was taxed. DV-in on camcorders falls foul of a
specific import levy on video recording devices. It's stupid, of course,
but there is no "feature tax" as such.
> another example - a monitor with DVI input as well as analogue will
> attract a higher tax than one which is analogue only.
I can find no evidence for this. Reference?
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