China Proposes Rival Video Format

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China Proposes Rival Video Format

Posted by Hemos on Wednesday July 30, 2003 @11:12PM from the yay-duplication dept.

Richard Finney writes "Yahoo News is reporting that the Chinese government is supporting an effort to develop a homegrown standard, called 'AVS,' for compressing digital audio and video in order to avoid paying royalties on proprietary compression schemes. The AVS groups website is online but in Chinese."

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Piracy? by Rosyna · 2003-07-30 23:15 · Score: 3, Funny

I wonder if this would cut down on media piracy worldwide. Since Videos/DVDs on the black market in China would be in AVS Format, no other country could play them.

Just a thought.
Re:Go China! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-30 23:21 · Score: 0, Funny

Yes and I bet they will use programmers in reducation camps to create the standard. Royality free and payment free whoo hooo!
The beauty of standards is... by SharpFang · 2003-07-30 23:21 · Score: 3, Funny

...that there's so many to choose from.

(I don't remember who said that but that's daamn right :)

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Adult Verification System? by sigmaIII · 2003-07-30 23:32 · Score: 2, Funny

But does everyone in China have a credit card?
Re:1.2 billion by neonstz · 2003-07-30 23:35 · Score: 4, Funny

Well, according to the RIAA the population in China is the equivalent of 900 million people, since the chinese are a bit shorter.
Re:Chinese PEOPLE won't make money by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-30 23:47 · Score: 1, Funny

Thankfully, we live in capitalist countries, where when the government makes money they give it to the people.
Well, some of them.
Alright, their friends that gave them money to run their elections in the first place.
AVS by soliaus · 2003-07-31 00:00 · Score: 3, Funny

There is actually a pr0n company called AVS which stands for Adult Video Systems. I wonder if they will use the format? ~me

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Re:1.2 billion by vague · 2003-07-31 00:04 · Score: 1, Funny

*tick*
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1,289,646,745
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1,28 9,646,747 ...

Gee, I'm really glad they provided a singular digit precision :-)

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Re:1.2 billion by TheMidget · 2003-07-31 00:31 · Score: 1, Funny

Come check it out.
No, no, I won't fall for that! I still remember what happened to Dmitry Sklyarov what he "came to check it out"...
Getting the Kinks Out by corby · 2003-07-31 00:35 · Score: 2, Funny

I got a chance to review the format, and it looks like they need some more work on the audio / video syncing issues.

In the clip I saw, a martial artist was moving his mouth extremely rapidly, but the audio was just a slow voice intoning in English:

"So, my young sabretooth, it appears the student has now become the master."
Re:China better than Slashdot?? by TheRaven64 · 2003-07-31 01:48 · Score: 1, Funny

China better than Slashdot??
Yup. China is a lot better than Slashdot. Slashdot doesn't have any farms, so couldn't support its population without relying entirely on imports from the so called `real world'.

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Re:1.2 billion by MarkGriz · 2003-07-31 02:13 · Score: 2, Funny

Coincidentally, the amount of spam coming from China has increased 28% in the past 6 months. According to one Chinese offical "We have the world's second-largest online population, but our super efficiency allows us to spam the entire United States' 165 million online users quite successfully"

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Re:if only theu made friends with India... by Hatta · 2003-07-31 02:30 · Score: 2, Funny

I guess they got tired of waiting for Ogg Theora too.

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