China to Promote Own Alternative to DVDs, EVD

supermanksu writes "Seeking to compete on its own terms in the lucrative entertainment industry, China announced a government-funded project Tuesday to promote an alternative to DVDs and 'attack the market share' of the global video format." This has been an ongoing project.

Reverse Piracy?

[Anonymous Coward]

How are they going to stop us from bootlegging
kung-fu movies?

Horrywood

[hoggoth]

Oh well, I'll just have to do without all those great movies made in China.

WoO!

[Anonymous Coward]

Americans can start selling home-made $3 Chinese EVDs! Turnabout, etc.

Ongoing

[Hi_2k]

This has been an ongoing project. Newspeak for "Yeah, this is a dupe, I know it, but gosh darn it I'm gonna post it anyway!"

In Related News, Jack Valenti . . .

[StefanJ]

. . . calls on President Bush for a preemptive nuclear strike.

"This isn't about marketing dominance or intellectual property rights," said the movie industry mogul, "They hate our freedom!"

No Comment

[Catharz]

A spokesman for the Motion Picture Association of America did not immediately return a message seeking comment.

They probably had to get a couple of people in to help them off the floor after they fell out of their chair laughing.

Re:Not good enough

[l810c]

Also, the acronym EVD ("enhanced versatile disc") seems extremely contrived to sound just like 'DVD'.

They should make it sound more 'Chinesey' like their Fireworks and Food:

'Eternal Visual Delight'

Finally!

[Carnivorous Carrot]

Finally! Something we can crack and pirate stuff from them!

An Extreme Yo-Yo By Any Other Name...

[l33t mn!ml]

Hey at least they had the taste not to call it "XVD".

Oh dear :/

[Cloud K]

Am I being thick, or does this mean a possibility of a scenario where a reader/burner is:

DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, EVD, EVD-R, EVD-RW, EVD+R, EVD+RW?

Unlikely perhaps, but not impossible. Fragmentation of a so-called 'standard' is a bad thing IMO :(

Try getting salesmen at PC World (UK) to try and explain *that* drive!

Article Typo

[bsDaemon]

real project name PDVD -- People's Democratic Video Disk
*duck*

No, I'm sorry, it's even worse

[Xeger]

Because of technical peculiarities, the EVD format will not support the proper R/RW profiles for recordable versions of the media. Under pressure from the Motion Picture Association of America, China has announced that it will only support EVD-W and EVD+W formats.

The difference between R, RW and W is that with R and RW you can Record and ReWrite the disc, respectively. But with an EVD-W disc you can ONLY write to the disc. Once the disc has been written, you can never read from it again.

Copy protection, hell. You can't copy what you can't read!

Re:Not good enough

[geekoid]

stupidity.
Now where's my billions?

In other news...

[iamhassi]

China to create own air
Posted by icup

In a move to fight anything promoted by the West, China has revealed plans to create it's own air.

"Western air is just too... western" says Director of Foreign Affairs Kim Woo. "Chinese air should have a more traditional feeling to it."

Kim Woo continues "China has more people any any other country, we can do whatever we want without taking orders from Western influence, including making Chinese air."

"I like the idea," said one Chinese citizen, "I live in China, so I should breath Chinese air, right?"

Although no details have been revealed about the distribution system of the new Chinese air, inside sources say it will be bottled like water and priced at roughly $1 USD per quart. Bottling is likely to take place in the US.

Plans are also in the works for Chinese water.

Re:Who is this really going to help ?

[meadowsp]

Everyone who is American thinks money is worth more than bodies.