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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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BORG by weeelookatme · 2003-07-31 02:34 · Score: 0, Redundant

Will the BORG Adapt to this new "format" and since the BORG is all about destroying human kind, how will it get new updates for this format if there is no one to Create new versions of AVS video.