For standards to be implemented, the most important thing is to be recognized. The more companies that implement this standard, the faster the standard will be implemented.
The previous DVD standard was like this. With more companies supporting the DVD Forum, their standards can be implemented as quickly as possible.
Now the two sides are fighting again on high-definition DVD, and the Blu-ray DVD Alliance established by the companies in the DVD Alliance has also attracted some original island companies. However, some companies in the DVD Alliance also rebelled and joined the HDDVD Forum.
If the island country's companies are doing so because of local alliances, then those companies that have joined the DVD alliance are doing so for profit. Fengyu Electronics and Philips decided to license the original DVD patents to them, so that they can produce more popular DVD players, optical discs and computer optical drives.
Originally, they were also buying patent licenses from island country companies in the DVD Alliance. For the same price, of course there is a better choice.
What's more, the DVD Forum also has a huge advantage, that is, a technology developed by Mingji Company is compatible with the DVD Alliance's standard discs, but the DVD Alliance's players are not compatible with the DVD Forum's standard discs.
In this way, DVD Forum has a huge inherent advantage in players and computer optical drives. When you buy a CD, who knows what format it is in, but some players can play all of it, while others can only play part of it. Which one do you think consumers should buy
This time, the HDDVD Forum claims that the high-definition DVD standard they are studying can be produced on the original DVD production line, which will greatly save the costs of these small companies. But not every company can be as willful as Suini and Songxia and invest tens of millions to change the production line.
How many CDs do you need to sell to earn back the money for this production line
As a result, the two camps of high-definition DVD exchanged many members, and both parties showed their strengths and began to attract other electronic companies.
At this time, representatives of Thomson Company, on behalf of the HDDVD Forum, went to negotiate with American film companies to ask them to support the HDDVD standard, that is, to produce high-definition DVDs that meet their standards, and not to cooperate with the Blu-ray DVD Alliance.
The companies in the island country also immediately realized that the most important thing at present is the copyright of these film companies. If they don't support their format, then half of their film sources will be missing, which will greatly affect their profits.
The DVD Forum was like this back then, and they couldn't hold their heads up. This time, they won't make the same mistake again.
After all, Thomson Company is the number one home appliance company in North America and cooperates with all film companies, so it has a great advantage.
Of course, Sunny also has a film company it controls, and Dongzhi also has shares in the film company, so eventually Sunny Film Company and Disney joined the Blu-ray DVD Alliance, and of course their Toei and Toho, and others Companies such as Shimen Pictures, 20th Century Focus, MGM, Warner Brothers, etc. have joined the HDDVD forum, and film companies in Hong Kong, Baodao, South Korea, and some European film companies, All have joined the HDDVD camp.
Of course, the mainland also follows the HDDVD standard. After all, mainland DVD companies have obtained patent authorization from the DVD Forum. They dare not abandon Fengyu Electronics and turn around to cooperate with companies from island countries.
Some computer manufacturers were also divided into two camps, supporting Blu-ray DVD and HDDVD respectively. But what Feng Yu didn't expect was that this time, Intelligent announced its support for the Blu-ray DVD standard.
Just like the last time Microsoft announced support for the DVD Forum, this time Intel also confused Philips, Thomson and other companies.
Our implementation of DVD standards has something to do with you, right? You neither produce players nor CDs, and you have no movie or MV copyrights, so what are you doing
Microsoft still has an explanation. After all, does their system support optical drive drivers
The interface standards for optical drives have been fixed for a long time. Do you need to have different interfaces on your motherboard? Therefore, Feng Yu believed that Yingte was just a troublemaker and there was no need to pay attention to him.
Eighty percent of the world's DVD players are made in China. Among them, China's own brand occupies 60% of the world's market share. The remaining 20% are members of other DVD forums. Twenty percent are members of the DVD Alliance, and they are mainly island brands.
Fifty percent of the world's DVD discs are also made in China. The remaining 30% are made in the United States, mainly distributed by film companies. The remaining 20% are made in Japan, Europe, etc. .
Therefore, whether it is players or CDs, Huaxia is the leader, and the most important ones are of course Fengyu Electronics and Aihua Electronics.
International electronics companies have actually acquiesced in their hearts that China is the strongest in this business. It’s just that the island company is still not convinced.
This time, they promoted HDDVD with a look of full confidence, because Fengyu Electronics and Aihua Electronics started researching HDDVD technology as early as two years ago, while Sunny and their Blu-ray DVD technology have just started. , already far behind in time.
It won't be long before HDDVD players will be on the market, and new formats of high-definition discs will also be introduced to the market. As for Suini and the others, it will take at least a year.
By the time they enter, although the market will not be saturated, HDDVD will already have the upper hand.
In the next period of time, some electronic companies that had never made DVDs before also began to choose a camp. Some of them choose the HDDVD camp, and some choose the Blu-ray DVD camp.
But in general, the HDDVD camp is still larger in number, and more importantly, it controls more player manufacturers, sellers and film sources.
However, what the island company relies on is that they lead the world in high-definition televisions. If you buy a high-definition DVD player, it must be paired with a high-definition TV, right
If you watch it on an ordinary TV and can't tell the difference between high definition and standard definition, then what's the use
But they would never have imagined that LCD TV technology would develop faster and faster, far surpassing plasma TV technology, and high-definition TVs and LCDs could also do it.
It is precisely because of the island country's plasma technology barriers that HDDVD has a more competitive advantage. They can be on HDTVs and also form strategic alliances.
While everyone was still fighting for members, Fengyu Electronics released the first HDDVD player!
Sunny and other companies were immediately confused. What happened? How could they successfully develop an HDDVD player so quickly? Do they have HDDVD disc sources
Immediately afterwards, some film companies in Hong Kong released HDDVD discs, announcing that the high-definition DVD era had officially arrived!
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