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View Full Version : Next-gen DVD-RW standard agreement


wmansir
20th February 2002, 01:13
27GB on single side, single layer

Uses standard MPEG2 transport on current DVDs.

Major players signed on:
Hitachi Ltd., LG Electronics Inc., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Pioneer Corporation, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Sharp Corporation, Sony Corporation, and Thomson Multimedia.

Of interest to us:
"...the adoption of a unique ID written on a Blu-ray Disc realizes high quality copyright protection functions."

Details:
http://www.matsushita.co.jp/corp/news/official.data/data.dir/en020219-4/en020219-4.html