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This is how all companies work, good and bad. Leaked rumour, hedged denials.. and we fall for it every single time.

Yup. Let's not forget, people, that Warner just about a month ago posted a similar press release after rumors started swirling about them, using much the same language. Here's a story about it if you've forgotten.

Whenever you see words like "current plans" or "present policy" in a press release, it means they can - and usually will - change course as early as tomorrow.

This was not a denial.

Or it could have been Leon: The Ulitmate Edition, that along with those extra 20 minutes, adds a better remaster, DTS sound, a second disc of extras, and the option to read nifty little factiods about the movie as it goes along. Worth ten bucks? To you maybe not, but to movie geeks it is.

Its about time a movie with worse cover art beat out Kahn.

it might be okay if its a tall, thin redhead that enjoys being around nerds.

Here you go!

For one thing, you are mixing up patent and copyright. Piracy has nothing to do with patent.

Just google "DVD patent royalty China". Here is one link I just found.

Go here to view the comparison. Big differences.

Here is a split screen video comparing the 97 "New Hope" Jaba to the new DVD release.

enjoy

According to this post the patent fees for a DVD player work out to be about $20. The author is effectively anonymous, so hard to verify, but the DVD 6c fees are listed here and they are only part of the picture, so $20 may be the real deal.

Given that half the cost of the system goes to the patent holders (remind anyone of Microsoft?), it is no wonder that China has licensed On2 Technology's VP6 codec for a reported flat $2 a player for there own hi-def video disc standard.

That should get them out from under the thumb of the big-corp licensing fees at home and lead to a flood of DVD players in the USA that also support VP6. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if within a year or so we start seeing asian bootleggers who currently do VCDs and SVCDs switch over to bootleg VP6 discs that are higher quality than even any DVD.

Wouldn't that be some global karma for the pigopolists in hollywood? I, for one, am actually rooting for China on this.

But Tommy did do something similar in Vice City, though I think I killed more people with my chopper blades than with the bombs I set...