China announces CH-DVD, a new high definition DVD standard

As if two different high definition DVD standards weren't enough for the world, China has gone ahead and said "actually, it is, at least for the western portion of it." The Optical Memory National Engineering Research Center has announced CH-DVD, a high definition DVD standard based on the DVD Forum's HD DVD, but with additional Chinese-owned technology tacked on. This additional technology takes the form of advanced copy protection designed to prevent the spread of pirated content. A new foundation called the China High Definition DVD Industry Association will be promoting the format, with the aim of launching a hardware player in 2008, and getting content producers on board before that.

[Thanks, cullen and JL]

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 9th 2007 8:48PM]

Copy protection from the land of Jackie Chan , the little yellow man. Bwahahahaha !
Sounds like a marketing ploy. It will be cracked faster than you can say "leaded paint" or "poison pet food".

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 9th 2007 9:02PM]

What the wrong with Jackie Chan? I love his movies and I think he is great. Otherwise you won't know his name, do you?

[Solipsism Posted Sep 9th 2007 9:01PM]

A CHALLENGER APPEARS

[Ghengis Posted Sep 9th 2007 9:13PM]

I was gonna post jeers about the irony of China promoting copy *protection*, but when you think about it, they have a lot of experience with DRM (and, uh, breaking it). Of course, there's no such thing as DRM, and no matter how cheap "legit" CH-DVD is, people will pirate it and sell it cheaper.

[NoNaMo Posted Sep 9th 2007 9:34PM]

I can see the reason behind this... it gives china some control on content...
Blueray wont work in china anyway, due to region locks. HD-DVD is region-free, so to cut down on imports (chinese gov. dont want that filth in china), they make their own version.
Of cource they based this format on HD-DVD since it is superior :D

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 9th 2007 10:06PM]

Clearly it should have been called Chigh-Definition DVD.
Or perhaps Chighner-Definition DVD would be more fitting.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 9th 2007 10:09PM]

mini-ninjas! celotaped to the DVD's, thats there copy protection, an there CH-DVD players are basically Trojans, full of ninjas!

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 10th 2007 1:18AM]

Like the TD-SCDMA of China, the CPU of China, the OS of China, it's a another privated nonsense.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 10th 2007 10:13AM]

This is NOT a new format. China is adopting HD-DVD as their national standard, adding their own codecs and copy protection - period.

This is good news for the HD-DVD camp.

[harm Posted Sep 10th 2007 6:13PM]

I'm sure this all relates to the licensing fees Chinese industry (hardware & film distribution) would ordinarily have to pay to either the hd-dvd or blu-ray consortiums.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 11th 2007 9:38AM]

great china is the new kid on the stree of high definition...i have a image on my mind whit hundreds of illegal CH-DVD players in all the world.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 11th 2007 11:32PM]

So, given that Paramount (was it?) sold out for a few million bucks to Microsoft and Co. to do HD-DVD only (for three months from initial release), how much did Bill pay the Commies to adopt his favored big-brotherian technology this time out? Half a sheckle each?

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