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Wad
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 Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 1:05 am Post subject: DVD 2.0, a standard DVD thats like a HD DVD |
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FFS - just when you thought BluRay had won. Will be interesting to see the results. Sound sto me like some developers just dont know when to quit. Toshiba have already lost $1 Billion.
Toshiba, MS, and Panasonic work on DVD 2.0, a standard DVD thats like a HD DVD
Recently Sony Electronics president Stanley Glasgow said “The battle really begins now to move people away from DVD to Blu-ray,". It seems as though DVD forum, chaired by Toshiba, is going to do everything it can to make it one tough battle. They have decided to try to overhaul the standard DVD format by finding ways to "incorporate some of the same next-gen functionality developed for HD DVD into a DVD 2.0 format, including the HDi interactive layer and the advanced network connectivity."
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At the same meeting, according to a summary posted on the Forum Web site, the committee approved the formation of a new working group (dubbed WG-12) “to study and specify network applications and related network specification of DVD Forum formats, make recommendations for better interoperability and functionality of network-connected DVD Forum specified devices and content and communicate on relevant recommendations with other standard creation organizations.”
What that means in non-Forum legalese, I’m told by sources familiar with the plans, is that the new working group will look for ways to incorporate some of the same next-gen functionality developed for HD DVD into a DVD 2.0 format, including the HDi interactive layer and the advanced network connectivity.
One of the co-chairs of WG-12 is Microsoft, which played a major role in developing those capabilities for HD DVD (the other co-chair is Panasonic).
Toshiba and Microsoft are also working through the DVD Copy Control Assn., which oversees the CSS encryption format used on standard DVDs, to try to breathe new life into the old format.
Microsoft was behind a proposal to DVD-CCA—originally floated two years ago but revived in modified form late last year—to introduce “managed-copy” to standard DVDs, under which consumers would be able to copy their DVDs to a hard drive under carefully DRM’ed conditions, for streaming over a home network.
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DVD 2.0 Format Specification
1. Video encoded in MPEG2 SD
2. HD available via Super Upconversion to 960p
3. HDi interactivity
4. Networking
5. Managed Copy
6. Fully backward compatible with existing DVD players.
News Source: contentagenda
http://www.contentagenda.com/article/CA6539511.html
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dbarrade
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hehe, HD DVD lost to Blu Ray, so now they are going to release the same features on a smaller disk, that requires a new player to take advantage of, wtf?
They'll announce that all the HD DVD players will support these disks soon enough, and people will be watching glorious upscaled DVD with a new menu system and the ability to purchase toilet paper online!
I bet Microsoft roll it out as an update to the XBox 360 and they will try to tick the "Next Gen DVD Playback" Box again with a small note in 4 point font * DVD 2.0 compatible media required
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Wad
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It says compatible with existing dvd players. Its certainly not a real threat to BluRay but it is sure to muddy the waters for jo normal once again.
Clever play to try and slow BluRay
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FATMAN
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Yeah, I'd have to agree with Wad on that one. While I'd like to think nothing of it backwards compatible to existing DVD players is something that certainly will come into play for the bloke earning 400 bucks a week. The whole thing is as clear as mud. If I were Toshiba I would have concentrated on pushing HD DVD as a PC storage medium after they lost WB to Bluray, pump out an arse load of cheap HD DVD burners and media and call it a day. Oh well, the whole situation is becoming more and more a series very good examples of very limited thinking from the Toshiba/MS/HD DVD camp. Time to move on boys.
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dbarrade
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When they say fully backwards compatible they mean the main movie only will play on standard DVD... this is gonna piss people off who buy a DVD 2.0 disk expecting something more and get the same as the standard DVD...
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gahooleys
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| When they say fully backwards compatible they mean the main movie only will play on standard DVD... this is gonna piss people off who buy a DVD 2.0 disk expecting something more and get the same as the standard DVD... |
well if that's the case then it's not fully backwards compatible is it.
Still f this shit, let blu-ray have the next 8 years and then get back in the game when HD downloads are viable
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