http://www.betanews.com/article/New_Chi ... 1189196071New unexpected development coming out of China is shedding light on the reason that might have prompted Paramount and Dreamworks to jump ship and abort its support for Blu-ray. On September 7th, 2007, China officially dropped the bomb on the HD format war:
The new "CH DVD" format was developed by the Optical Memory National Engineering Research Centre, an optical disc lab at Tsinghua University, in collaboration with the DVD Forum, developers of the HD-DVD format.
The physical format of CH DVD is based on HD DVD and will have similar storage specifications. But the new format includes Chinese-owned intellectual property such as advanced copy protection technology.
This new HD DVD-based format was co-developed and is officially endorsed and supported by the Chinese government.
HD DVD and CH DVD are compatible, which means HD DVD players - with the right software - can read CH DVD, and vice versa.
Das Format soll CH-DVD heissen... eine Art "copy" des HD-DVD. Bereits 2005
wurde bekannt das CHina an einem eigenen HD-DVD Fornat arbeitet. CH-DVD-PLayer sollen laut den news HD-DVD's abspielen können zu "chinesischen" Preisen. CHina geht wohl den Weg um Lizensgebühren zu sparen.
Für den globalem Markt ändert sich eigentlich nur dass, das HD-DVD (CH) Player für 100-150 USD angeboten werden können.
Ich hoffe einigermaßen den Text richtig verstanden zu haben:)
Und hoffe Sony und Blu-Ray ownen China :O