Intel joins DVD forum's WG-4 Audio Working Group

Emedia Professional, May, 1998

Intel Corporation has announced its membership in the DVD WG-4 Audio Working Group and support for the group's proposed DVD audio specification as a step toward bringing next-generation, consumer-quality audio to the PC platform. Intel is the first computer-industry representative invited to join the predominantly consumer-electronics forum that has been meeting with music-industry representatives for the last two years. Intel supports the proposed WG-4 format as the most cost-effective and PC-friendly, and will provide input to the committee in its efforts to make WG-4 an accepted standard. "We are taking an active role in the multi-industry efforts to help develop new copy-protection technologies that serve hardware, software, and consumer-electronics companies," says Dan Russell, Director of Platform Marketing in Intel's Desktop Products Group. "These efforts will also help pave the way for our OEMs and IHVs to implement these new technologies quickly and cost-effectively." The Audio Working Group is a committee of the DVD Forum composed of more than 30 top consumer-electronics and music-industry representatives to create the specifications for the recording industry's next-generation audio format using DVD.

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