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APPENDIX
DVD Forum
The DVD Forum is an international organization made up of companies
using or manufacturing digital versatile disc (DVD)-related products. The
Forum was created in 1995 when ten companies (Hitachi, Matsushita,
Mitsubishi, Philips, Pioneer, Sony, Thomson Multimedia, Time Warner,
Toshiba Corporation, and Victor) joined for the common purpose of
promoting DVD worldwide and establishing standardized formats of each
DVD application for the marketplace.
DVD+RW Alliance
The DVD+RW Alliance is a voluntary group of industry-leading personal
computing manufacturers, optical storage and electronics manufacturers
including
Dell,
Hewlett-Packard
Electronics, Ricoh Company Ltd., Sony Corporation, Thomson multimedia
and Yamaha Corporation. The group seeks to develop and promote a
universally compatible, rewritable DVD format to enable true convergence
between personal computing and consumer electronics products.
DVD FLLC (Format, Logo, Licensing, Corporation)
DVD Format/Logo Licensing Corp
handle
issuing
of
manufacturers and policing the use of the DVD logos. All manufacturers of
hardware, discs and related DVD products must be licensed and first
products verified to ensure that all players will play all discs. The correct
logos must be used for the appropriate products in the appropriate way.
Company,
(DVD
FLLC) was established in 2000 to
the
DVD
specifications,
DVD±R/RW Writer
MCC/Verbatim,
Philips
granting
licenses
to
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