China To Develop Its Own DVD Format

Posted by Zonk on Friday October 7, 2005 @07:11AM 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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Old news is good news by Anonymous Coward · 2005-10-07 07:14 · Score: -1, Troll

Slashdot news is old news.

Therefore, ____________ Q.E.D. I'll let you fill in the blank.
china by hyperstation · 2005-10-07 07:28 · Score: -1, Troll

wow, china really sucks. i thank whoever or whatever rolled the dice that i didn't end up born there. my sympathy to those who were, i hope you can get out.

beautiful scenery there, however...
Unnecessary by Luscious868 · 2005-10-07 07:34 · Score: 0, Troll

I chink we don't need any more high definiation video formats.