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China To Develop Its Own DVD Format
An anonymous reader wrote to mention an MSNBC story covering a move by the Chinese entertainment industry to create their own DVD standard, the second such announcement in two years. From the article: "If successful, the move could add a new wrinkle to the battle between HD DVD and the competing Blu-ray Disc formats over which will become the dominant new DVD standard. The official Xinhua News Agency said the new standard will be based on but incompatible with HD DVD, which is being promoted by Toshiba Corp. and Universal Studios, as well as Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp., the leading suppliers of chips and software for most of the world's personal computers."
Because an hour later, they'll have a new one.
Not to sound jingoistic by any means, but 'made in China' and 'quality product' rarely appear in the same paragraph (with the exception of this one...)
its called VCD :P
I'll just use my special getting high powers one more time...
Then where will Americans get their $2 bootleg DVDs?
Do they really need a new format just to support Engrish subtitles?
It's only a model.
Now we can:
* Bootleg Chinese DVDs to sell on every market corner in the US
* Make a US region and sell unlocked US-made DVD players in China
* Terribly mispell Chinese words in our manual
* Make badly lip-synced English voice overs on the DVDs
* Open Caucasian-run DVD stores in China with thousands of bootlegs, and canned American food
3. ???
4. Profit!!!
hmmm, is it some kinda company?! like Sony or Toshiba or even Cuba?
*flips over a DVD (from the future)* "Made in China"
Unlikely
HIGHLY Unlikely
I think you may be right. It'll definitely say "Made in USA".
Of course, it'll be written in Chinese. And we'll all be able to read it. Fluently.
Beijing (AP) - In a move that has surprised the world, China has announched today that its new DVD format will be 100% Freedom-Free. "We want to make sure terrorists cannot attack the pride of the People's Republic of China," said President Hu Jintao. "China will not be hindered by other formats that could possibly include Freedom protocols," he concluded.
"We were just trying to stop those damned file sharers," said Mitch Bainwol, Chairman and CEO of the RIAA. "This time, China has gone too far. They can't expect to attack freedom and get away with it. Besides, how are we supposed to be the bad guys when China shows us up with this? We have an image to maintain."
Following the announcement, the RIAA is expected to respond later today with a Data-Free DVD format. "You can't steal what you can't see," said Bainwol.
decide that they should be in charge of DVD formats? :)
Ok thank you Captian Pedantic. However if you want to be overly literal, you're still wrong. The first definion in the dictonary for build is "To form by combining materials or parts". Well guess that? That's what I did. I ordered parts, I assembled them in to a system. Build is a word that can be used for any level of construction. I also built my headphone amp, hoever the parts in that case were a PCB, opamps and a bunch of caps, resistors, transistors and so on. Either way it's still building.
I mentioned that I built my PC only in such that I considered all the parts and their quality individually before buying. I didn't do that with the TV, it came all as one unit and was considered over all and I can't tell you the origin of the parts, only that dBx made the final unit.
"...the Chinese government will have absolute control of what can be viewed by most of the Chinese people."
Hmmmmm.....control over what content can be viewed and by whom.....
Sounds like some sort of DRM scheme.
No-one would dream of trying anything like that in the free, capitalist west, now would they?