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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedMaking a Franken-DVD: whether a comprise on disc specs can work this time is far from clear.(Column)
Video Business, October, 2005 by Sweeting, Paul
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY * Sony lost out on the biggest royalties with the first DVD and doesn't want to make the same mistake a second time. * But a compromise could be more difficult this time around. Paul Sweeting (psweeting@reedbusiness.com) is a columnist for VB.
********** With last week's high-definition maneuvermgs by Warner Home Video and Hewlett.Packard, the rough contours of the much-hoped-for compromise between Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD are becoming clearer. Interests in both camps seem to be converging on a plan to adopt the Blu-ray physical spec, combined with the logic and application layers from HD DVD. That is, a Blu-ray Disc with an iHD interactive layer instead of the more complicated BD-Java platform, and...
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