On Wed, 30 Sep 1998 arromdee@inetnow.net wrote:
> It's rare as far as I'm concerned.

Moving target moving target moving target. Yawn. This is getting old.

> It may cover several models, but that's nowhere near most of the
> market.

Actually it is. (Waits for ken to redefine "most of the market")

> I want to be able to buy any player and be pretty sure I can get it
> modified.  I can't.

So buy ones you can.

> Besides, he _doesn't_ sell the chips, and though he links to people who
> do, those people aren't in the US.

If canada is too difficult for you then I think you have other serious
problems you need to get sorted out first.

> And getting a modchip is only part of the problem.  I'd need to get someone
> to install it.  How am I going to find one of those?  (That's one way being in
> the US matters.  I don't want to mail my player to Germany.)

The mods are easy to install. As long as you can grasp a soldering iron
its no big deal. Of course it might be a problem if youre paraplegic.
Otherwise its not.

> At the moment, I don't see how any fan interested in getting anime from Japan
> can support DVD.

Thus Ken reveals his true agenda. Religiously protecting existing LD
investment.

-Dan