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An industry standards group has made a preliminary decision to include Microsoft's video compression technology in a next-generation DVD format, giving the company a key boost in the digital media arena.
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Panasonic is trying to tackle one of the major obstacles that has slowed mainstream adoption of recordable DVD drives with a new drive that can read multiple formats.
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The software giant joins the DVD+RW Alliance and plans to take a more active role in developing and promoting the DVD+RW format.
A consortium of companies developing Blu-ray Disc technology, a recordable DVD format using blue-violet lasers, announces the start date for the licensing of the technology.
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