Andre Yoskowitz
5 Mar 2007 19:30
In late February, The DVD Forum, during its 37th Steering Committee, approved the "China High Density Read-only Disc" (conveniently tagged as C-HD DVD-ROM) physical specification, which they termed as Version 10.0 (China only), in an effort to promote the HD-DVD standard in the huge Chinese market. All this is according to industry sources in Taiwan.
The sources also explained that The DVD Forum will design a licensing system for the C-HD DVD-ROM in China.
This comes at a time when the format battle between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD is still very hot. Last week Sony showed off their base-level Blu-Ray Disc player, the BDP-S300 with a retail price of $600 USD which is meant to compete directly with Toshiba's HD-DVD players which sell for $499 USD.
Source:
Digitimes