Burning on way to retail.(approval for recordable disc)(customer burning services)

Video Business, December, 2006 by Sweeting, Paul

By Paul Sweeting DVD Forum approves new type of recordable disc Industry efforts to develop a uniformly compatible download-and-burn system have cleared the last major technical hurdle, opening the way for commercial implementations of customer burning services early in 2007. At its Nov.

29 meeting, the DVD Forum gave formal approval to a new type of recordable disc that will accept movies encrypted with CSS, the same copy-protection system used on retail discs, for playback on set-top DVD players. The step was considered critical because the widespread use of any other copy-protection protocol carried the risk of incompatibility between burned discs and standard DVD players, all of which support CSS but could choke on other encryption...

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