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[cdanteek]

"Every DVD consumers buy in the price include a royalty to be paid to the owner of the patent. Patents are also the reason of the war between the next generation High Definition formats (Blu-ray and HD DVD), and also the reason why China created a new format (to not be forced to pay royalties)."


Press Release

JANUARY 25, 2008 -- The DVD6C Licensing Group (DVD6C) consisting of nine leading developers of DVD technology and formats -- Hitachi, Ltd., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Panasonic), Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sharp Corporation, Toshiba Corporation, Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. (JVC) and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Inc. -- today announced that it has revised its worldwide patent licensing program beginning on and after January 1, 2008, including offering a new license agreement (the "New DVD6C License"), which offers reduced royalty rates on certain products and additional licensing options.

Key changes to the new licensing program include the following:

Reduction of royalty rates for DVD Read-Only Discs (i.e., the DVD-Video Disc, DVD-Audio Disc and DVD-ROM Disc) from US$0.045/Disc to US$0.040/Disc for sales of DVD Read-Only Discs beginning on or after the Effective Date of the New DVD6C License.
The addition of +R Discs and +RW Discs as new categories of licensed DVD Products. The royalty rates for +R Discs shall be the same as the current royalty rates for DVD-R Discs, and the royalty rates for +RW Discs shall be the same as the current royalty rates for DVD-RW Discs.
Inclusion of Time Limited DVD Discs in the DVD-ROM Disc, DVD-Video Disc and DVD-Audio Disc categories of licensed DVD Products.
Interested parties will remain free to negotiate individual license agreements with DVD6C's member companies, rather than taking out a single portfolio license or license for a category of products. The member companies have committed to provide such licenses under fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms and conditions.

[Richard Fdisk.exe]

That's really interesting;

because I only buy my DVD +/-R disks when they're on sale
and the last batch I bought I got for 18¢ ea  @ Wal-Mart ($18.00 for the tube of 100)

and the batch before that was 20¢ ea @ Future Shop  for Verbatim's at that ($20.00 for the tube of 100)
we picked up 4 tubes that day 2 tubes of each +R & -R

wonder who's pickin' up the difference in the royalty?

but what gets at me is why is DVD-RAM so blasted expensive?

I found one last week in a clearance bin in a local office supply shop
and it was originally priced $19.00 for one disk
I bought it for $2.00

Cheers
(«►RfD◄»)

[grandpabruce]

That's really interesting;

because I only buy my DVD +/-R disks when they're on sale
and the last batch I bought I got for 18¢ ea  @ Wal-Mart ($18.00 for the tube of 100)

and the batch before that was 20¢ ea @ Future Shop  for Verbatim's at that ($20.00 for the tube of 100)
we picked up 4 tubes that day 2 tubes of each +R & -R

wonder who's pickin' up the difference in the royalty?

but what gets at me is why is DVD-RAM so blasted expensive?

I found one last week in a clearance bin in a local office supply shop
and it was originally priced $19.00 for one disk
I bought it for $2.00

Cheers
(«►RfD◄»)

DVD-RAM is almost dead.  Not quite, but getting there.

[Richard Fdisk.exe]

I just picked it up (the DVD-RAM)
for fun you know
to say; "yeah, I've used it!"

the manufacture date on the package was 2004 and I just bought it last week
it was $19.00 in 2004

it took me over 20 minutes to figure out how to actually use it
then I remembered where to look and went into

Control panel ► Administrative Tools ► Computer Management ► Disk Management
and "Formatted" it,  & boom it works

only windows exploder has a problem
it thinks it needs to store the files in the
CD burning folder on the HD and I get the little
pop up  "files are ready to be written to the CD"

but any other program sees it as a HD
MSpaint
Word Perfect
etc.
even a DOS window can use it;
read from it, write to it,
create directory, remove directory
chkdsk even reports
the cluster count
the file count
the directory count
and the free sspace

looks to me like it's basically accessed on a hardware level
like HDD's or FDD's  just optical rather than magnetic

(I hope I can find a whole pile of them for cheap before they die out)

Cheers
(«►RfD◄»)