The below quote is from Olivier Van Wynendaele, assistant general marketing Toshiba Europe on the launching of HD DVD in Europe in a phone interview with Phil Hinton from AudioVisualForum.
According to Mr. Vynendaele, people in Europe might be able to njoy HD DVD titles of studios backing Blu-ray exclusively in the US. My question is, what prevent US customers from purchasing and importing to the US, these titles as currently, there is no region coding.
http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=367701
According to Mr. Vynendaele, people in Europe might be able to njoy HD DVD titles of studios backing Blu-ray exclusively in the US. My question is, what prevent US customers from purchasing and importing to the US, these titles as currently, there is no region coding.
Quote:
Tosh: Oh, we have more than three studios supporting us, you are of course referring to the US main studios, but we also have studios in Japan and Europe an so on, so there are more than three. Well, yes we don't have the support of some studios obviously, there's MGM, Fox and Disney as well as others who at the moment are not yet supporting us, but are certainly watching the market before the make any decisions. What I really want to say is that it might be a different story in Europe compared to the US situation. In Europe movies are distributed differently by local distributors for instance, Studio Canal which is one of the main European studios and they will be providing HD DVDs from the launch, so you will get movies which come from themselves as well as different US studios, studios which are only backing Blu Ray in the US. So it might not be such a big problem in Europe where we could see movies released here, which are only available in Blu Ray in the US.
Tosh: Oh, we have more than three studios supporting us, you are of course referring to the US main studios, but we also have studios in Japan and Europe an so on, so there are more than three. Well, yes we don't have the support of some studios obviously, there's MGM, Fox and Disney as well as others who at the moment are not yet supporting us, but are certainly watching the market before the make any decisions. What I really want to say is that it might be a different story in Europe compared to the US situation. In Europe movies are distributed differently by local distributors for instance, Studio Canal which is one of the main European studios and they will be providing HD DVDs from the launch, so you will get movies which come from themselves as well as different US studios, studios which are only backing Blu Ray in the US. So it might not be such a big problem in Europe where we could see movies released here, which are only available in Blu Ray in the US.
http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=367701
(yes we have them demo set here 
), atleast for the time being. I stand corrected. 
