China to Promote Own Alternative to DVDs, EVD

supermanksu writes "Seeking to compete on its own terms in the lucrative entertainment industry, China announced a government-funded project Tuesday to promote an alternative to DVDs and 'attack the market share' of the global video format." This has been an ongoing project.

Comments

Re:ugh

[fjordboy]

but I just caught on to dvds!

As long as there's no possibility for replacing cds in sight, I'm ok....

What surprised me most... [OT]

[RobertB-DC]

What surprised me most was the URL of the story!

I remember using Excite as my search of choice for full-text searches, back before Yahoo! started charging for everything, including directory listings. Then, there was Webcrawler, once the home of the canonical robots.txt standard.

I even remember back in the day, when not all AltaVistas were created equal.

Then came Google's PigeonRank system, and it's been downhill (or uphill, whichever you see as a positive metaphor) ever since.

So the Excite.com link was a trip down memory lane. Not that I'm expecting the Good Old Days to return; when I tried to access the home page with my Opera browser, I got an error message: "The browser you're using is not allowing you to sign in to Excite." Don't worry, Excite.com... I won't be trying again.

so why is my story submission rejected

[radicimo]

I want to be on the record that I submitted this story on Sunday, but for some unkown reason it was rejected. Yeah, ok guys. Why is it suddenly news now? Maybe slashdot should add some mechanism whereby you can find out why your story submission was rejected. Arbitrary.

Sour grapes, me?