EVD format announced in China

[Savant]

Press release:

LSI Logic partners with Beijing E-World to develop technologies for new EVD format in China (Nov 18, 2003) - A leader in innovative digital media processing technologies for the Digital Home, LSI Logic Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced that it is providing Beijing E-world Technology, a consortium of consumer electronics manufacturers, with high definition (HD) encoding and decoding technologies (based on the DoMiNo™ architecture) for a new digital video format called Enhanced Versatile Disc (EVD). Targeted for use in the Greater China region, the first high-definition EVD content and optical disc players are being unveiled today in Beijing at a special event co-hosted by E-world, the State Intellectual Property Office and Zhongguancun Science Park, and supported by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Information Industry, the Ministry of Commerce, the General Administration of Press and Publication, and the Station Administration of Radio, Film and TV (SARFT). (full article)


With the popularity of CD players in China, it only makes sense that they would evolve EVD. Of course with EVD comes a new copy protection technology, and since EVD drives are not available for computers, issues regarding illegal copying of these discs should be minimal for the forseeable future.

Regards,

Savant

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