Posted by Bill Vermillion on 06/19/06 20:55

In article <slrne7n9ar.lqn.nospam@debian.dns2go.com>,
Justin <nospam@insightbb.com> wrote:
>SoHillsGuy wrote on [29 May 2006 18:44:18 -0700]:
>>
>> Justin wrote:
>>> SoHillsGuy wrote on [29 May 2006 12:43:47 -0700]:
>>> >
>>> > Justin wrote:
>>> >> VHS had its own region coding built in for the longest time, with only
>>> >> North America and Japan being in the same region. Maybe a few smaller
>>> >> markets.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > There's no "region coding" in VHS, at least in the same created
>>> > differences on DVDs. The differences in VHS had everything to do with
>>> > broadcasted picture lines. Differences in country standards created
>>> > incompatible tapes. The difference in DVDs is created purely to
>>> > control the market.
>>>
>>> Well duh. What do you think I was talking about?
>>
>> You say it had "region coding." It didn't. It wasn't something "built
>> in," as though on purpose. It was just different. Having
>> non-compatible broadcast standards is clearly not the same as
>> intentionally making things different to control a market. The same
>> result, yes. But not the same reasoning behind it, as you seemed to
>> imply. If you meant otherwise, then I'm sorry but you used the wrong
>> terminology.

>Whether it was intentional or not, it restricted product to certain
>regions.

Just as a TV set made in England wouldn't work in the US - as
most of Europe had PAL and the US had NTSC. And there were
variants of NTSC. It all had to do with the way governments
specified the standards for their TV tranmitters. And of
course in France it was SECAM.

It's similar to the difference between cars that run gas as opposed
to those that ran diesel.

And those standards for TV were set in place at least 25 years
before the first home VCRs became available. The VCR's had to be
able to record the native broadcast standard.

Bill

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