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To: John Rieman who wrote (26821)	12/17/1997 5:12:00 PM
From: Bill DeMarco	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Audio Spec Discussed At First DVD Forum Meeting (12/17/97; 3:39 p.m. EST) By Yoshik Hara, EE Times The DVD Forum held its first general meeting in Tokyo this month amid mushrooming membership from the original 10 to 122 companies worldwide. "The DVD Forum is a rare organization in the world that will continuously work on setting DVD specifications incorporating new technologies," said Taizo Nishimuro, president of Toshiba, which is the chair company of the group. The DVD Forum has already completed specifications for DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM, and DVD-R formats. "The forum will continue to work on setting specifications, such as for DVD-Audio and DVD professional applications," Nishimuro said. The expanding rolls -- now 52 principal voting members and 70 associate members -- comes at a time when some members, such as Sony and Philips, have jeopardized group unity by proposing formats in next-generation video, audio, and RAM disks that differ with those of the forum. Commenting on the conflicts, Hisashi Yamada, a technology executive at Toshiba who is chairing the Technical Coordination Group of the forum, said, "The DVD Forum is a voluntary organization, and even if its members propose other formats, the forum would not try to control the activity. But I believe the framework the DVD Forum has established is reasonable and is supported by related industries." As the base of the formatting activity, the forum has formed two new working groups (WG): copy protection WG and a WG for DVD professional use, in addition to the existing six working groups. These groups, which involve new members, will discuss DVD specs in each field. Among them, Audio WG is preparing version 0.9 specifications, to be announced by year end, for the DVD-Audio format. The DVD-RAM WG is now working for a 4.7-gigabyte system to announce version 1.9, pre-final specifications, due in June.