For the standards to be implemented, the most important thing is to gain recognition. The more companies that implement the standards, the faster the standards will be implemented.
This is what happened to the DVD standards in the past. Thanks to the support of more enterprises, the DVD forum was able to implement their standards as quickly as possible.
Now, both sides are competing on the HD DVD standards. The Blu-ray DVD Alliance, which was set up by the DVD Alliance, had attracted some Japanese companies. However, some companies from the DVD alliance also rebelled and joined the HD DVD forum.
If the Japanese companies joined the DVD Alliance because of local alliances, then the companies that left the DVD Alliance did it because of profits. Wind & Rain Electronics and Philips had decided to license their DVD patents to the DVD Alliance. This way, the DVD Alliance will be able to produce more popular DVD players, discs, and PC optical drives.
Feng Yu had bought the patent authorization from a Japanese company at the DVD Alliance. With the same price, the DVD Forum will choose the better option.
Furthermore, the DVD Forum had developed a technology that can play the DVD Alliance's standard discs. But the DVD Alliance's players are not compatible with the DVD Forum's standard discs.
This way, the DVD Forum will have a huge advantage in DVD players and PC optical drives. Everyone will not know what format the discs are in. But some players can play all the discs, and some can only play part of the discs. Which will the consumers buy?
But this time, the HD DVD Forum announced that their HD DVD standards can be produced using the original DVD production lines. This will save these small companies a lot of money. Not every company can be like Sony and Panasonic and invest tens of millions to modify their production lines.
How many discs must they sell to recover the cost of the production lines?!
Therefore, the two HD DVD camps exchanged many members, and both sides began to use their strengths to rope in other electronics companies.
At this time, Thomson's representative represented the HD DVD forum to negotiate with the US film companies. They asked them to support the HD DVD standard, which is to produce HD DVDs that meet the HD DVD standard, and not to cooperate with the Blu-ray DVD Alliance.
Those Japanese companies immediately realize that the most important thing now is the movie companies' copyrights. If the DVD companies do not support their formats, they will lose more than half of their film sources, and their profits will be affected.
The DVD Forum had suppressed them like this in the past. This time, the DVD Forum will not make the same mistake.
Thomson Company was, after all, the number one household appliance company in North America, and it had cooperated with all the movie companies, so it had a natural advantage.
Of course, Sony has its own movie companies, and Toshiba has shares in those movie companies. In the end, Sony Pictures and Disney joined the Blu-ray DVD Alliance. Of course, Toshiba and Toho also joined the Blu-ray DVD Alliance. Other companies like Shimen Pictures, 20th Century Focus, MGM, Warner Bros., etc., joined the HD DVD Forum. Hong Kong's movie companies, Taiwan's movie companies, Korea's movie companies, and some European movie companies also joined the HD DVD Alliance.
Of course, China is also following the HD DVD standards. After all, China's DVD companies are authorized by the DVD Forum, and they do not dare to ignore Wind & Rain Electronics and work with Japanese companies.
Some PC manufacturers also split into two factions. They support Blu-ray DVD and HD DVD respectively. But Feng Yu did not expect Intel to announce that they will support Blu-ray DVD standards.
Just like Microsoft's announcement to support the DVD Forum, Intel had shocked Philips, Thomson, and the rest of the companies.
What does our DVD standards have to do with Intel? You all are not producing DVD players, discs, movies, and music videos. Are you all messing around?!
Microsoft still has an explanation. After all, their operating system needs to support optical drives.
Also, the optical drive's interface standards had been fixed for a long time. Are you going to use a different interface on your motherboard? That's why Feng Yu felt Intel is only a troublemaker, and there's no need to bother with them.
More than 80% of the world's DVD players are manufactured by Hua Xia, and Hua Xia's own brands own 60% of the global market share. The remaining 20% are owned by other DVD Forum members, and the remaining 20% are owned by the DVD Alliance. These are mainly Japanese brands.
More than 50% of the world's DVD players are manufactured by Hua Xia. The remaining 30% are manufactured by the US and are mainly distributed by those movie companies. The remaining 20% are manufactured by Japan, Europe, etc.
That's why Hua Xia is the leader in the DVD and DVD industry. Wind & Rain Electronics and Aiwa Electronics are the main players in this industry.
The international electronics companies had acknowledged Hua Xia is the strongest in this industry. It's just that the Japanese companies are not convinced.
This time, the Japanese companies are very confident in promoting HD VD. This is because Wind & Rain Electronics and Aiwa Electronics had started developing HD VD technology two years ago. Sony and the rest had only started developing their Blu-ray DVD technology not long ago, and they are lagging behind.
Soon, HD VD players will be launched, and the new HD discs will be introduced into the market. As for Sony and the rest, it will take at least one year.
Although the market will not be saturated by the time Sony and the rest enter the market, HD VD will have the upper hand.
During this period, some electronics companies that had not produced DVD players before also start to choose their factions. Some of them chose the HD DVD camp, while others chose the Blu-ray DVD camp.
But in general, the HD VD camp had the largest number of players. More importantly, they controlled more players, distributors, and movie sources.
But the Japanese companies are relying on their HD TVs, and they are the best in the world. If you buy an HD DVD player, it must be paired with an HD TV.
If you use a normal TV to watch it, you will not be able to tell the difference between HD and Standard Definition.
But the Japanese companies will never expect LCD TV's technology to develop faster than Plasma TV. LCD TV can also be used in HD TV.
It is because of Japan's Plasma TV technology, HD VD has a competitive advantage. The Japanese companies can also form an alliance on HD TV.
When everyone is still trying to recruit members, Wind & Rain Electronics released the first HD VD player!
Sony and the rest of the companies are stunned. What's going on? How come they developed HD VD players so quickly? Do they have the HD DVD disc source?
After that, some Hong Kong movie companies release HD DVD discs, announcing the arrival of the HD DVD era!
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