All the assorted payments add up to $15 to $20 per unit, said Michelle Abraham, senior analyst at Cahners In-Stat. Besides MPEG, 6C and 3C, they include payments for Dolby sound and to owners of various copy protection systems. Most Chinese manufacturers have refused to pay, just as they refused to pay Video CD royalties
so, why are they creating a new standard?
"For a long time now the Chinese government in Beijing has wanted to create [China's own] IP [intellectual property] to balance the flow of DVD royalties"
I think it would be fair if American and Japanese companies refused to pay any royalties back to China for these technologies.
And the difference between EVD and DVD?
Derray Huang, deputy general director of ITRI's Optical Electronics and Systems Lab, said the logic format of EVD will differ slightly from DVD's, but he declined to offer specifics. "Some technology is in the DVD range, but some is different," Huang said, adding that a year-end introduction is possible. "It depends on the key components, like chip sets." All DVD player components will be the same, he said, with the exception of an upgrade for the chip set that would allow both DVDs and EVDs to play on the same machine.
And of course the change of 'D' to 'E' on the label.
