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Originally Posted by CouchPotato
Let me see if I got this right.
CH-DVD is meant for the China market only and includes the AVS codec so Chinese companies don't have to deal with paying licensing fees.
However, the CH-DVD standard is very close to HD-DVD and so, while the Chinese are busy pumping out tons of CH-DVD units, they can just make some tweaks and start pumping out tons of HD-DVD units.
So the impact is that probably next year, we will indeed see a flood of Chinese HD-DVD players in NA. All of the off-brand variety. Although this is no different than what we've suspected all along. At some point, the Chinese will make a cheap player for NA.
And I guess that still doesn't preclude China from producing a cheap BD player at some point as well.
Is that right?
P.S. Yeah, this should be moved to general discussion.
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That is what I take away from it also and with Sun Microsystems involvement and grants it seems like a bigger push for the NA HD DVD format also. I also agree this should be in the GD section.