New HD media disc coming from China

Author: Phil Cogar
Published: 10th September 2007
Comments (22) Stumble
Chinese President Hu Jintao supports CH-DVD. Do you?

Chinese President Hu Jintao supports CH-DVD. Do you?

There are simply not enough high definition disc formats out on the market right now. At least that's what the Chinese government thinks. A new format named China High Definition DVD (CH-DVD) is set to hit the market sometime next year.

CH-DVD has been developed by Optical Memory National Engineering Research Center (OMNERC), an optical disc research lab at Tsinghua University, and is based off of HD DVD standards. Storage capacities should be around the same mark as its brethren but the big push behind the format is that it includes Chinese-owned intellectual property that has advanced copy protection technology.

The China High Definition Industry Association (CHDA) was established by OMNERC this past Friday in order to help promote CH-DVD. Currently, both CHDA and CH-DVD are provisional names and are subject to change.

This brings up some very interesting questions. Will a new format marketed mainly to China help curtail the pirating of media that is rampant throughout the country or will it do nothing at all? If the Chinese government decides to ban the sale of HD DVD and Blu-ray players and movies, how will that effect the rest of the world? Do we really need yet another disc format when the current top dogs have yet to settle their fight over the course of the past year?

Discuss these questions and more over in the forums or in the comment section below.
Quote DougEdey 10th September 2007, 09:51
£10 says that all Olympic material will be released on the CH-DVD
Quote Tim S 10th September 2007, 10:02
LOL
Quote Duste 10th September 2007, 10:21
I think I died of laughter after reading this, tbh. It's the same as HD-DVD, just more copy protection? That's all us 'swashbucklers' bloody need.
Quote steveo_mcg 10th September 2007, 10:28
Is the point of this not to make it cheaper for Chinese people to buy? Given they are now not paying royalties to western/Japanese co's so the total cost should be less since the royalties will be much less.
Quote Woodstock 10th September 2007, 10:38
o hurrah more compitition, pretty sure this wont win (excluding possibly china)
Quote MilkMan5 10th September 2007, 10:44
"... property that has advanced copy protection technology..." :?

I was under the impression that China did not care about protection rights!
Quote mmorgue 10th September 2007, 11:28
More media formats with useless, excessive copy protection that will be hacked within...oh... I'd say a month.

Bring on the disposable, 16gig+ mem cards for use in all devices much like a CD/DVD -- *that's* the future. Not plastic discs spinning on mechanical motors in order to store info. Just seems so.. "last century" now.
Quote The_Pope 10th September 2007, 11:47
The interesting side of this technology, for me at least, is this simple question: is the Chinese market large enough now to support its own technology standards independent of The West?

While some people will wonder if CH-DVD stands a chance against HD DVD and Blu-ray, the real issue is whether it is a fair fight. With over a billion people (don't forget to exclude all the peasants who don't have running water or electricity though!) maybe CH-DVD can happily corner the local market and leave The Format Wars for everyone else :(
Quote MrBadidea 10th September 2007, 12:34
"it includes Chinese-owned intellectual property that has advanced copy protection technology."

Aka, copy this disc and we'll be sending a Deathbus around.

Woo Woo! Here comes the death bus!
Quote [USRF]Obiwan 10th September 2007, 12:48
I would be laughing my socks off, when thhis is 1/3 the price of br/hd-dvd and people are all over it, totaly beat the crap out of the other "2 fighting for a stick" players....
Quote Javerh 10th September 2007, 14:31
Perhaps the disc will auto-sensor everything anti-government. I can't wait until Russia declares something similar.
Quote DXR_13KE 10th September 2007, 21:47
very interesting..... next stop: every country has a different variant of this.
Quote GoodBytes 10th September 2007, 22:43
Hmmm... I think I'll create my own format. DHD-DVD
Devilish HD-DVD, A DVD packed with over 14.5GB of rootkits and virus that effect your computer once put it.
Quote DougEdey 10th September 2007, 22:48
Quote:
Originally Posted by GoodBytes
Hmmm... I think I'll create my own format. DHD-DVD
Devilish HD-DVD, A DVD packed with over 14.5GB of rootkits and virus that effect your computer once put it.

Isn't that Bu-Ray v2.0?
Quote oddball walking 10th September 2007, 22:57
Quote:
Originally Posted by DougEdey
Isn't that Bu-Ray v2.0?

:)

If its called China High Definition DVD then shouldn't it be CHD-DVD not CH-DVD
Quote Constructacon 10th September 2007, 23:52
Quote:
Originally Posted by oddball walking
:)

If its called China High Definition DVD then shouldn't it be CHD-DVD not CH-DVD
But rather than pronouncing the letters I can just imagine people pronouncing it "ched"-DVD.
Quote mikeuk2004 11th September 2007, 00:26
This format is China only so this will not even be on sale in the west. I dont get why people are moning as this will not effect the format war at all.
Quote GoodBytes 11th September 2007, 02:00
Hmm.. Don't eat the disk... it can contain too much lead.
Quote mattthegamer463 11th September 2007, 03:38
This is silliness. China should just stick with replicating both HD-DVD and Blu-ray disks and not waste time developing its own actual ideas.

Does anyone else just love the Presidents name, Hu Jintao? It just rolls off the tongue...
Quote Rebourne 11th September 2007, 05:06
Pretty silly, it's probably just to help the government censor and oppress its people a little more.
Quote HourBeforeDawn 11th September 2007, 05:56
is this the same format that the Chinese introduced when DVDs came out? I think whole point is that it has the same amount of storage as a HD DVD but on a standard DVD format not a HD Disk or Blu-Ray disk as it uses the same laser as a standard DVD player so that could be a plus, if Im thinking that this is the same formate as before if not then completely disregard this comment.
Quote xion 11th September 2007, 16:27
The only thing that has me worried, is if China is pushing this standard, then where will the cheap "ASDA/Argos" cheap BR/HD-DVD players be coming from?? That is the only standing point in the format war IMHO
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