Usually new standards are created by Japanese, US and European companies, they reserve a certain amount of money for Research and Development (R&D), create the standards and receive license fees in return. Taiwanese and South Korean companies, like Lite-On, BenQ, LG and Samsung pay a license fee in order to make the technology and start mass production. This is slowly changing and also Taiwanese and South Korean are getting more influence in the standards, but usually they have difficulties in picking one and usually back several standards.
It worked the same
with the DVD recordable format, none of the Taiwanese did really pick either
the DVD-R or DVD+R side but rather supported both. Samsung seems to
continue this tradition when it comes to the new blue-laser formats, Blu-ray and
HD-DVD as the company has announced it will launch a player that supports both format in case both camps can't agree on one format.
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"It won't be simple but you'll see our solution in the coming year. Consumers will be too confused otherwise," he added in the interview published on Tuesday. Samsung is a backer of blu-ray, which promises higher capacity than HD DVD and better interactivity and security. But supporting all standards -- as Samsung has done with cellphones and mobile video -- could give it an advantage in the multibillion-dollar market for DVD players, PC drivers and optical disks. |
Several people have already opted that Blu-ray would be a great format for games and other software, while HD-DVD would be the best format for movies. Of course only time will tell but it seems we have to get ready to get used to two formats again. Discuss this in our Satellite, HD-TV, Blu-ray and HD-DVD Forum .
Source: Yahoo.com
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