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The DVD Forum, the international organization that defines formats for DVD products and technologies, today celebrated its official 10th anniversary at the annual general meeting of its members held in Tokyo. The Forum, which has been hailed as a model for collaboration between the consumer electronics, IT and entertainment industries, was founded in August 1997, to assume and extend the work of the DVD Consortium, the ten-company organization that initially developed the DVD format. When it started its work in developing the DVD format and promoting its widespread dissemination, the DVD Forum could count 86 members. Today, it has about 220 member companies, drawn from all over the world.Technically, the DVD Forum's anniversary isn't until August 7th, but considering all that they've done, they deserve to celebrate. If you'd like to read more, the DVD Forum's entire press release can be found here. Add a comment
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MPEG LA announced today that the fourth meeting of essential Blu-ray Disc(TM) patent owners, currently consisting of 18 companies, was held in New York on February 6-7 for the purpose of creating a joint license providing fair, reasonable, non-discriminatory access to essential patents, as an alternative to negotiating separate licenses. Significant progress has been made in identifying licensing terms for Blu-ray Disc(TM) products such as players, recorders, drives, software, recordable discs and prerecorded discs. Participating companies include CyberLink Corporation; Dell Inc.; Hewlett-Packard Company; Hitachi Ltd.; Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.; LG Electronics Inc.; Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Panasonic); Mitsubishi Electric Corporation; Pioneer Corporation; Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.; Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.; Sharp Corporation; Sonic Solutions; Sony Corporation; TDK Corporation; Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.; and Warner Home Video Inc.Additional patent holder meetings are planned, and work on the joint license will continue. More information can be found here. Add a comment
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Digital video processor vendor ESS Technology Inc. has sold its HD-DVD and Blu-ray Disc DVD technologies and related assets to SiS Holding Ltd., a Hong Kong-based electronics distributor, for $13.5 million, ESS said Friday (Feb. 16).If you'd like to read more, head on over to EETimes. Add a comment
ESS (Fremont, Calif.) said it would cease operation of its camera phone business and pursue licensing of its image sensor technology and patents. The company said this action would reduce operating expenses by roughly $2 million per quarter.
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The author of the AACS bypass attempt code, whose screen handle is arnezami, described the process of locating the media key as a matter of creating a control program that slowed down the playback of an HD DVD disc, searching for changes in critical locations in memory. Once those changes are made, playback halts, and the changed memory contents are tested for a sequence of bytes that can be validated as a media key.While the AACS LA has acknowledged these hacks, they have yet to revoke any device keys. Even if they do, it probably won't set back people like arnezami very long. If you'd like to read more, head on over to BetaNews. Add a comment
From there, arnezami needed a volume ID - a sequence which, when combined with the media key, could yield the VUK. In a bizarre twist, he learned the volume ID was actually guessable, at least for one disc: It was a decimal-encoded permutation of the production date of the disc (9/18/06).
