China favours EVD over DVD

[RJW]

Not the right boad I think but there isn't a board for posting any optical information about other formats as the current once and there only is a general questions harware section and it's not a question I also think that place was not the right spot.
So that's why I pust it here.
So Ian were do I put future post like this ? I know some folks on the board are interested in the stuff.

EVD is from the last things I heard still a read only format however they are looking at a writable and rewritable version. *

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/25 ... ooses_evd/

(* Now let's hope that all the crap hongkong manufacturers like vanguard/ infosmart will only make disc's for these formats and quite the DVD business. )

[Ian]

This part of the forum is fine. DigiTimes also had a story about it:

http://www.digitimes.com/systems/a20050225A7044.html

It looks like TheReg based their article on DigiTimes'.

[Halc]

With the rumoured release price of films being in the region of $1 USD / film for EVD, I must say that I'm very interested. Esp. considering that new releases easily cost 20-30 USD in Europe at the moment.

Besides, EVD players will be dirt cheap :)

[Gen-An]

Somehow I doubt the MPAA will let its titles be sold for that cheaply...

[Ian]

There was also some talk about them having to pay royalties outside of China because of how similar EVD discs are to DVD-ROM's.