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Re: Pricing of DVD vs. Video.

To: "'liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu'" <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Subject: Re: Pricing of DVD vs. Video.
From: "Mr. Edward Spodick" <lbspodic@ust.hk>
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 13:14:12 EDT
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On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Jon Blake wrote:
> To my mind all of this adds up to a no brainer if facing a choice of
> formats, almost regardless of price.

A very good point.  But for those libraries overseas, there can be the
added complication of DVD region coding.  The US, Hong Kong, and Mainland
China are in 3 different regions (yes - Hong Kong and mainland China *are*
in different regions - the regions were presumably set prior to the 1997
handover).

We need to be sure to purchase multi-region players, which may or may not
fall afoul of licensing in the future.  :(

-Edward Spodick, Information Technolgy Manager
 Hong Kong university of Science & Technology

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