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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedLieberfarb lobs charges at Blu-ray: says rival high-def format's less open than HD DVD.(Warren Lieberfarb)(Blu-ray Disc Association)
Video Business, September, 2005 by Sweeting, Paul
LOS ANGELES--The war of words between camps supporting rival formats for high-definition discs escalated further last week, as former Warner Home Video president Warren Lieberfarb accused the Blu-ray Disc Assn. of undermining open technology standards of the sort employed successfully with DVD.
Speaking at the Digital Hollywood Forum here, Lieberfarb--who now is a consultant to Toshiba, the principal developer of the rival HD DVD format--effectively claimed that the leading Blu-ray companies acted anti-competitively in blocking industry cooperation on HD DVD while simultaneously developing their own, proprietary format. "The $64,000 question is, how were three companies able to veto the work of the DVD Forum while also forming the Blu-ray Disc...
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