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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."
They make splendid steel products, as does Japan. Never get Pakistani steel though, ugh.
I always find that the most inferior foreign products aren't from any particular country, but are either A) sold in Radio Shack, or B) those things that say 'MADE IN USA' all over the packaging, because the packaging (or the sticker) is, but the product inside could be from anywhere.
"China To Develop Its Own DVD Format"
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I honestly don't understand what China thinks it will accomplish. You don't become an economic juggernaut by taking steps to cut yourself off from the rest of the world. If China wants the economic benefits of creating standards rather than just using them, they need to create a standard that the rest of the world will adopt. That way *they* can control the standard and ensure its success.
Instead they're merely making an incompatible version of someone else's standard. Something which they have no real economic power to force. They can force it politically, but that would simply piss off "The People of China" that much more when they can't import any foreign entertainment. (Certainly, a big import/export for any first world country.)
The only thing I can say is that it's probably again about control. They aren't looking at the economic implications, they're looking at preventing ideas like "freedom", "democracy", and "Dallas" (I'm only half-way joking here) from being imported.
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Xbox360 games use DVDs.
Which is the reason MS supports HD-DVD. They've got nothing to lose. They announced their intent to think about the possibility to include an HD drive for movie playback at some time in the future or not. So if Blu-Ray wins big deal, MS simply puts a BR drive in their consoles. On the other hand if they can kill Blu-Ray, they negate one of the main advantages of the PS3 (i.e. the one that it is a HD player. Sony sold a lot of PS2s that way when stand-alone DVD players were still expensive) one Sony will use to justify the (supposedly) higher price of their console
Don't think of it as a flame---it's more like an argument that does 3d6 fire damage
I am sorry to say your anti-Chinese rhetoric is absurdly naive, as it is. No offence.
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China actually has a sizeable middle class. Not the size (in %) of western economies but it's getting there.
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