Chapter 1206 Members' Struggle

In order 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 standard of DVD before, that's it. Relying on more companies to support the DVD Forum, their standards can be implemented as quickly as possible.

Now the two sides are confronting again on high-definition DVD, and the Blu-ray DVD Alliance established by the DVD Alliance companies has also brought some original island companies to the past. However, some companies in the DVD Alliance have also rebelled and joined the HDDVD Forum.

If the companies in the island countries are due to local alliances, then those companies that turned out of the DVD alliance are for the sake of profit. Fengyu Electronics and Philips decided to license the original DVD patents to them, so that they can produce DVD players, compact discs and computer optical drives that are more popular in the market.

Originally, they were on the side of the DVD Alliance, did they also buy the patent authorization of the island country company? The same price, of course, choose better.

What's more, the DVD Forum also has a huge advantage, that is, a technology developed by Mingji Company is compatible with playing the standard discs of the DVD Alliance, while players of the DVD Alliance are not compatible with the standard discs of the DVD Forum.

In this way, the DVD forum has a huge advantage in terms of players and computer optical drives. When you buy CDs, who knows what format they are in, but some players can play all of them, while others can only play part of them. Which one do you think consumers buy?

But this time, the HDDVD forum claims that the high-definition DVD standard they research can be produced by the original DVD production line, which will greatly save the cost of these small companies. But not every company can be as capricious as Suony and Songxia, investing tens of millions to change the production line.

How many discs do you have 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 sides showed their strengths and began to win over other electronic companies.

At this time, the representative of Thomson Company, on behalf of the HDDVD Forum, went to negotiate with the film companies in the United States, asking 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.

Those 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 more than half of the film sources will be lost, which will greatly affect their profits.

Back then, the DVD forum was like this, and they couldn't hold their heads up. This time, they won't make the same mistake again.

Thomson Corporation,

After all, it is the home appliance company with the largest sales in North America, and it cooperates with all film companies, so it has a great advantage.

Of course, Sunny also has a film company controlled by himself, and Dongzhi also has shares in the film company, so in the end Suny Film Company and Disney Company joined the Blu-ray DVD Alliance, and of course their Toei and Toho, and others Film companies such as Shimen Films, 20th Century Focus, MGM, and Warner Brothers have joined the HDDVD forum, and film companies in Hong Kong, Formosa, South Korea, and some European film companies, Have joined the HDDVD camp.

Of course, the mainland also complies with the HDDVD standard. After all, the DVD companies in the mainland have obtained the patent authorization from the DVD Forum.

And some computer manufacturers also divided into two camps, supporting Blu-ray DVD and HD DVD respectively, but what Feng Yu didn't expect was that this time, Intel actually announced support for the Blu-ray DVD standard.

Just like the last time Microsoft announced its support for the DVD forum, this time Intel also stunned companies such as Philips and Thomson.

We implement the DVD standard, does it have something to do with Intel? You don't produce players, you don't make CDs, and you don't have movie and MV copyrights, so you're making trouble!

Microsoft still has an explanation, after all, does their system support CD-ROM drive?

And the interface standard of the optical drive has been fixed for a long time. Do you need to make a different interface on your motherboard? Therefore, Feng Yu believes that Intel is just a spoiler, so there is no need to pay attention to it.

Eighty percent of the DVD players in the world are made in China. Among them, China's own brand accounts for 60 percent of the world's market share, and the remaining 20 percent are members of other DVD forums. Twenty percent of them are members of the DVD Alliance, mainly for island brands.

Fifty percent of the world's DVD discs are also made in China, the remaining 30 percent are made in the United States, mainly released by those film companies, and the remaining 20 percent are made in island countries, Europe, etc. .

Therefore, whether it is the player or the CD, Huaxia is the leader, and the most important ones are of course Fengyu Electronics and Aihua Electronics.

Electronic companies in the world, in fact, have already tacitly agreed in their hearts that this business is the strongest in China. It's just that the island company is still not convinced.

This time, when they promote HDDVD, they also put on a look of full confidence, because Fengyu Electronics and Aihua Electronics started researching HDDVD technology two years ago, and Sunny’s Blu-ray DVD technology has just started. , has fallen 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 Suuni and the others, it will take at least a year.

When they enter, although the market will not be saturated, HDDVD has already taken the lead.

In the next period of time, some electronics companies that had never done DVD before also began to choose camps. Some of them chose the HDDVD camp, and some chose the Blu-ray DVD camp.

But in general, the number of HDDVD camps is still larger, and more importantly, this side controls more player manufacturers and film sources.

However, what the island company relies on is that they lead the world in high-definition televisions. When you buy a high-definition DVD player, you always need a high-definition TV, right?

What's the use if you can't tell the difference between high-definition and standard-definition on an ordinary TV?

But they never imagined that the technology of LCD TVs will develop faster and faster, far surpassing the technology of plasma TVs, high-definition TVs, and LCDs can 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 HDTV and also form strategic alliances.

When everyone was still fighting for members, Fengyu Electronics released the first HDDVD player!

Sunny and other companies were stunned. What happened? How did they successfully develop the HDDVD player so quickly? Do they have HDDVD sources?

Immediately afterwards, some film companies in Hong Kong released HD DVD discs, announcing the official arrival of the HD DVD era!

... (To be continued.)