Hi Florin,
> It difficult to tell which way the market will go.
> However, the vast majority of the newer DVD players will happily play
> both formats, even when they only advertise one of them. Strange, isn't?
Not really. Almost all DVD Players now use standard ATAPI drives plus one of
a few Chipsets with (usually) nothing more than power-on-logo and menus
tweaked from reference Firmware delivered by the Chipset vendor.
Whether the or a 'manufacturer' (who really only designs the case, or even
just makets) 'supports' a standard is mainly a matter of which industry
grouping they're supposedly part of. I'd like to say it is a question of
which standards they validate but nowadays that seems to be the customers
job.
I say: 'hurray for China and Taiwan'. Those guys don't give a flying cuss
about the lame politics of the big brands they just care about price (often a
bit too much about this) and delivering maximum functionality to put on the
side of the Box. Hence region-free DVD's that play anything under the Sun
(and then some). Competition, when it really exists, is a wondeful thing...
cheers,
Andrew
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