cazalea
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What? That makes no sense!
I guess though it opens the door to creative "international products" suppliers. There is a guy nearby who (still) provides international format DVD players, does NTSC-PAL conversions of videos, etc.
When we lived in England we couldn't get anything "international" though local suppliers, and we lived near a town full of expats. We had to bring stuff over from the states. But still, this is almost 2020, nearly 30 years after I was in the UK.
Do you suppose it's a concession to the Sony division that supplies the US? Or a cost-saving measure for the locals?
When it comes to owner and service manuals for automobiles, I know that Kia, Hyundai, Honda, Nissan and others compel the local importer division to pay for (indeed to do the work locally) translations into American English versions
Mike
Interesting Subject vs Technical Proficiency
No fancy camera today because I got an emergency summons from the missus: “come quick!” Our second crop of hummers is hatching One in the shell and one in the nest Sunflower & GS What a nice watch for a nice day! Cazalea ...
Very nice... it's definitely spring
BTW I was at the big electronic shop today and spotted the Sony RX10 IV ... very nice handling camera. So I called the staff over and asked if I could see the English menu... after much fiddling around they "had to check with other staff". It turns out th...
What? That makes no sense!
I guess though it opens the door to creative "international products" suppliers. There is a guy nearby who (still) provides international format DVD players, does NTSC-PAL conversions of videos, etc. When we lived in England we couldn't get anything "inte...
My understanding is...
that if the product has English (or other language) menus, then the support organization in Japan must service that product... which means multi-lingual staff. Much less expensive to support one language only. In the past when I checked on English user ma...
