Intel Investors - Intel's Sphere of Influence now stretches into the Audio Recording Industry.
Check out this article on DVD-Audio Content Protection agreements with none other than Intel at the "center" of the agreement.
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3/02 9:42P (DJ)
Tech Firms, Music Industry To Agree On DVD Audio-Content Protection Story
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SAN JOSE, California -(Dow Jones)- Top computer companies are expected to announce Wednesday that they have reached a content-protection agreement for DVD Audio systems, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. The lack of such an agreement has kept DVD Audio from being commercially introduced into the music marketplace even as DVDs begin to make headway in the video industry. DVD, or digital video disc, is a five-inch disc that made its debut in 1997 as a new technology that made videos more vivid and lifelike.
About the size of a CD, the laser-read optical discs sell for about $24 each and their players cost about $500 each. In the year following the DVD's debut, the audio industry began developing audio-only DVDs to serve as an upgrade to compact discs. In addition to agreeing on the format, the group set out to find common ground on content protection. A framework to protect content for the DVD video disc had already been worked out.
Industry sources told the AP that on Wednesday, IBM Corp. (IBM), Intel Co. (INTC), Matsushita Electric (Panasonic) and Toshiba Corp. will jointly announce the development of a content protection framework for DVD Audio. The framework has received the endorsement of each of the five leading music industry companies, Bertelsman AG's BMG Entertainment, EMI PLC, Sony Corp.'s (SNE) Sony Music Entertainment, Seagram Co.'s (VO) Universal Music Group and Time Warner Inc.'s (TWX) Warner Music Group. The companies wouldn't officially discuss the framework before the scheduled announcement. The public release of this music industry-supported copy protection framework will enable DVD Audio to appear on the market this year. The Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association says that DVDs, which can hold as much as 13 times more information than a CD, can provide six-channel surround sound, giving people a more crisp and lucid listening experience. Copyright (c) 1999 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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