The DVD+RW Alliance has held a technological symposium in Taipei aimed at explaining its patent licensing and product certification process for 16x DVD+R, 8x DVD+RW and 8x DVD DL (single-sided double-layer) drives/burners and discs, as well as introducing its anti-piracy technology, Vidi.
Eight members of the DVD+RW Alliance, including Philips, Ricoh, Sony and Hewlett Packard (HP), had representatives participating in the symposium.
Vidi, jointly developed by Philips and HP, is a new copy protection technology to protect digital recordings of digital broadcasts and cable TV according to Broadcast Flag rules adopted by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The DVD+RW Alliance hopes to obtain FCC approval for Vidi and launch the technology as soon as 2005.
For the PC market, the DVD+RW Alliance has the upper hand on DVD Forum (promoting DVD-R, DVD-RW and DVD-RAM formats). However, having already adopted CPRM (content protection for recordable media) anti-piracy technology, DVD Forum has dominated the consumer electronics (CE) market.
