Trading Markets: "Toshiba to Keep Aloof from Chinese HD DVD Player Sector"

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Originally Posted by Phane

Not even by name... they are CH-DVD and while they are technologically the same, they use completely different copy protection and codecs which are incompatible with HD-DVD.

"CH-DVD (China High Definition DVD) is a high definition DVD format announced in September 2007 by the Optical Memory National Engineering Research Center (OMNERC) of Tsinghua University in China. Its format is compatible with those of HD DVD and can be played in an HD DVD player and vice versa. Its developer claim the format contains more copy protection features and is part of a big push by China to fight piracy."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CH-DVD

Originally Posted by dialog_gvf

Good thing HD DVD is so difficult and expensive to replicate.

It's pretty well known to be the opposite, but by how much isn't known... I am sure by now that the BD replicating cost have came way down and aren't to far off from HD DVD's replicating cost.