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China Tosses Out Yet Another High-Def DVD Format
from the going-nowhere dept
Say hello to HD NVD, China's latest homegrown high-definition DVD format. It joins EVD, another Chinese effort, along with HD VMD to try and drag Blu-Ray back into a standards fight, following its triumph over HD DVD. Best of luck with that, even with NVD's supposed cost advantage thanks to a lack of foreign-owned intellectual property. That's the same argument that was used for China's homegrown TD-SCDMA 3G technology, which hasn't exactly thrust them to the forefront of mobile telecommunications.
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until then ill stick to standard DVDs
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Blu-Ray is here to stay.
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Re: Blu-Ray is here to stay.
...anything else will just loose.
If you mean lose, say (or rather type) lose.
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Blu-ray is here to stay
It is Blu-ray not Blueray, or Blue ray, or Blu-Ray.
http://www.blu-raydisc.com/index.htm
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HD names
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Give it a rest already, China. You're trying to attack a piece of land that's already been conquered. It's futile. We don't need more formats. Just stick to what you do best, making cheap knock-offs of existing products.
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Built-in market of 1 billion people
Anyone remember VideoCDs? They were never a commercial success in the west, but in China you could buy set-top VCD players and buy/rent VCD movies at the local supermarket.
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Hollywood doesn't need to use it
Piracy is so rampant in China that they don't need Hollywood's seal of approval on a disc format.
The pirates will download whatever they want from torrents and burn it on a disc and sell it on the corner for 2 Yuan.
If Hollywood wants a piece of the action, they'll get on board by making nice packaging for 5 Yuan.
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This is lacking an edit feature and a spellchecker.
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