DVD forum

That DVD forum (the English original name is "DVD forum" without hyphen) a freiwillige is combination from in the meantime more than 230 companies, which it set itself to the goal, for the maintenance and the IT industry in regard to those . This industrial combination became 1995 under the name DVD Consortium based and 1997 designated itself to DVD forum over. The seat of the DVD forum is .

The DVD forum got bureaucratic structure "over the years by the various groups of interests one very much". Particularly with recordable DVD formats there are so large interest conflicts between equipment manufacturers and the unterhaltungsindustrie, so that the equipment manufacturers often own ways went:

  • The first case stepped with that DVD r and . To both DVD formats some equipment manufacturers wanted to have more inexpensive, recordable DVD formats and developed those DVD+R and . These two DVD formats were not consentable in the DVD forum, so that their market establishment over those DVD+RW Alliance one made.
  • The second case arose with the development of the DVD successor. While the DVD forum for this those , see some equipment manufacturers plan for this those as more success-promising. The supporters of the Blu Ray Disc are in that Blu ray Disc Association (Federal Employers Association) organized, which continues to undermine thereby the power DVD forum.

In addition, within the DVD forum there are groups of interests in own organizations organizes itself, as for instance:

  • those RWPPI (for DVD r and DVD RW),
  • those RDVDC (for DVD r, DVD RW and DVD RAM) or
  • those RAM PRG (only DVD RAM).
With the Logo "producers can indicate DVD video" the customer that this medium behaves compatible for DVD video specification and is playable thus with each DVD Player.

The DVD forum possesses the rights to the DVD name and DVD Logos apart from the task of the standardisation of DVD formats also. Only those and

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    • In the meantime the membership list over 230 companies covers, Conditions 12.09.2004.

    Web on the left of

    • dvdforum.org - official homepage of the DVD forum (English-language).
    • dvdfllc.cp.jp - Lizenzierung DVD Logo use (English-language).
    • dvddemystifiziert.de - frequent questions posed to the DVD from the newsgroup news://rec.video.dvd. The DVD forum particularly becomes in chapter 6.1 treats.
    • tecchannel.de - historical development of the DVD, one considers the representations over the different organizations.

     

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