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China To Develop Its Own DVD Format

Posted by Zonk on from the another-contender dept.

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."

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  1. Don't pin your hopes on their first format by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because an hour later, they'll have a new one.

  2. Quality? by The+Infidel · · Score: 4, Funny

    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...)

  3. they already have one by crabpeople · · Score: 5, Funny

    its called VCD :P

    --
    I'll just use my special getting high powers one more time...
  4. Hmm... by burtdub · · Score: 4, Funny
    "the new standard will be based on but incompatible with HD DVD"

    Then where will Americans get their $2 bootleg DVDs?

  5. Best News Ever by dada21 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!!!

  6. Re:Good luck, China. by node+3 · · Score: 3, Funny

    *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.

  7. How long before the UN and EU by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    decide that they should be in charge of DVD formats? :)

  8. Re:Chinese Censorship by mickwd · · Score: 3, Funny

    "...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?