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To: BillyG who wrote (36944)	10/29/1998 12:41:00 PM
From: DiViT	Respond to of 50808

CHINAS DVD SECTOR PROMISING 10/29/98 Xinhua News Agency - CEIS (Copyright 1998) BEIJING (CEIS) -- A RECENT FORUM OF DVD PRODUCERS HAS REACHED AGREEMENT THAT IT IS FEASIBLE TO DEVELOP THE DVD INDUSTRY IN CHINA. THE COMMON UNDERSTANDING HAS REFUTED THE VIEW THAT DVD DOES NOT CONFORM TO CHINESE CONDITIONS AND THE PRODUCT IS TOO COSTLY FOR COMMON FAMILIES TO AFFORD. THE FORUM, ORGANIZED BY THE CHINA SOUND EQUIPMENT ASSOCIATION, DEEDED THE VIEW AS NOT SCIENTIFIC AND DOES NOT DO ANY GOOD TO GUIDE CONSUMPTION. EXPERTS POINTED OUT THAT DVD PLAYERS ENJOY THE ADVANTAGES OF HIGH DEFINITION, HIGH IMAGE/SIGNAL NOISE RATIO AND ADVANCED COMPRESSION METHOD. DOMESTIC PRICE HAS DECREASED FROM 5000 YUAN TO 3000 YUAN AND WILL ULTIMATELY BE ONLY 300-500 YUAN HIGHER THAN VCD PLAYERS. MEANWHILE, OVER 1000 KINDS OF DVD SOFTWARE HAVE ENTERED THE CHINESE MARKET WITH AC-3 FORMAT RECORDING FUNCTIONS. IT IS LIKELY THAT A DVD WILL COST ONLY A FEW DOZEN YUAN IN THE NEAR FUTURE. REPRESENTING THE DEVELOPMENT TREND OF THE DAY, DVD DEVELOPMENT IS SURE TO GIVE A BIG PUSH TO TECHNICAL PROGRESS IN AUDIO-VISUAL PRODUCTS, TV AND ITS SIGNAL GENERATING AND TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS. IT IS VERY LIKELY TO BECOME AN ENGINE OF ECONOMIC GROWTH. MOST PRESSING AT PRESENT, DVD MANUFACTURERS HELD, IS TO DRAW LESSONS FROM THE DEVELOPMENT OF VCD AND START IMMEDIATELY THE DEVELOPMENT AND MANUFACTURE OF CHINAS OWN KEY PARTS AND KEY SOFTWARE AND TRY TO NARROW THE GAPS WITH DEVELOPED COUNTRIES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF DIGITAL PRODUCTS. THERE ARE 35 DVD PLAYER PRODUCERS. THEY INCLUDE: -- FUJIAN START: MAKING FIRST DVD IN JULY 1997 AND STARTING BATCH PRODUCTION IN MAY-JUNE. -- XIAMEN GONGHE: DEVELOPING NAVIGATOR 1 IN COOPERATION WITH QINGHUA AND MATSUSHITA CO.LTD, PRODUCING FIRST BATCH OF 4000 UNITS IN MARCH 1998 AND 60,000 IN MAY, WITH A PROJECTED ANNUAL OUTPUT OF 500,000 UNITS. -- SAST: SHOWING ITS FIRST PROTOTYPE IN BEIJING IN AUGUST 1997 AND PUTTING THE PRODUCT ON THE MARKET THIS YEAR. -- QINGDAO HISENSE: STARTING BATCH PRODUCTION IN JULY 1997 IN COOPERATION WITH TOSHIBA OF JAPAN, WITH FIRST-PHASE ANNUAL PRODUCTION CAPACITY OF 500,000 SETS AND THE PROJECTED ANNUAL OUTPUT OF 1.5-2 MILLION UNITS BY 2000. -- ZHENJIANG JIANGKUI: PUTTING THE PRODUCT ON THE SHANGHAI MARKET IN JUNE, WITH CSS LICENSE OF INTERNATIONAL DVD ORGANIZATION, SELLING FOR 3200 YUAN WITH FREE DISCS. -- JIANGSU SHINCO: MAKING ITS FIRST PROTOTYPE IN 1997, STARTING BATCH PRODUCTION IN 1998 AND GEARING UP ALL ITS EIGHTEEN PRODUCTION LINES TO DVD PRODUCTION. -- PANDA GROUP: STARTING TO MAKE ITS OWN DVD IN MARCH 1997, COMPLETING THE 3RD PROTOTYPE, PRODUCTION CONTRACT SIGNED. -- KONKA GROUP: SHOWING ITS FIRST DVD WITH GLOBAL REGIONAL CODES. -- CHINA HUALU: HAVING TWO TYPES OF DVD TO ITS CREDIT. -- SHANGHAI THAKRAL: PRODUCING DVD2000, DT3300 AND DT1300. -- SHUNDE SMC: GEARING TWO OF ITS VCD PRODUCTION LINES TO DVD PRODUCTION. -- FUJIAN WILD WOLF: HAVING TWO DVD PRODUCTION LINES. -- ZHEJIANG HUIQIANG: PRODUCING DVD -9601 AND PUTTING IT ON HANGZHOU MARKET. AND SHANGHAI RADIO AND TV BROADCASTING CORPORATION, SHANGHAI RECORDING CO.LTD, CHANGHONG, MALATA, AMOISONIC, COROWA, SHENZHEN XINDA, IDALL AND COLOUR STAR ALL HAVE THEIR OWN DVD PLAYER PRODUCTS.