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Recordable DVD Council To Promote Recordable DVD Products by Launching
a Worldwide Program
August 21, 2001, Berlin: The Recordable DVD Council, a
66-member coalition of leading DVD technology developers and users, today
announced that it will launch a worldwide program to promote recordable
DVD products complying with recording standards approved by the DVD Forum.
"The main work of the Recordable DVD Council will
be to encourage widespread acceptance of the three DVD Forum-specified
standards, DVD-RAM, DVD-R and DVD-RW," said the Council's chairman
Mr. Bon-Guk Koo, Senior Corporate Advisor and former Executive
Vice-President of Samsung Electronics. "In the digital network era,
products adopting recordable DVD formats, including both audio-video and
PC-based devices, such as DVD recorders, DVD drives for PC use, recordable
media and its applications, are expected to become very important business
categories. The Council will make its chief targets industry outreach at
major trade shows, information exchanges among Council members and
discussions aimed at expanding the recordable DVD market. The worldwide
program will feature the launch of a Council website, the recruiting of
new members from all over the world and the opening of representative
offices outside Japan in the near future."
The executive members of the Recordable DVD Council are
AMC Co., Ltd, Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Maxell Ltd., Matsushita Electric
Industrial Co., Ltd. (Panasonic), Ritek Corporation, Samsung Electronics
Co., Ltd., Toshiba Corporation and Victor Company of Japan, Limited (JVC).
In addition, the Council's general membership numbers 58 companies. For
more information, visit the Council's website: http://www.rdvdm.org
. (The Japanese-language site is now fully operational and an
English-language site will be launched in stages soon.)
The Council was originally known as the Recordable DVD
Meeting, but its name was changed to the Recordable DVD Council to reflect
the ongoing nature of its mission and also its initiative to expand its
membership to include other companies in the DVD business.
For Contact:
William Pritchard Panasonic 201-348-7182 pritchardw@panasonic.com
Kurt Praschak Panasonic 201-392-6124 praschakk@panasonic.com
Brendon Gore Matsushita News Centre Europe 3 Furzeground
Way, Stockley Park Uxbridge, Middlesex UB11 1DD, UK Tel: +44 (0)208 899
2217 Fax: +44 (0)208 899 2218 Email: News@matsushita-europe.com
Member List
Executive Members: (8 Companies) AMC Co., Ltd.,
Hitachi Ltd., Hitachi Maxell Ltd., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.,
Ltd. (Panasonic), Ritek Corporation, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.,
Toshiba Corporation, Victor Company of Japan, Limited (JVC)
General Members: (58 Companies) AIWA Co., Ltd.,
Almedio Inc., Asaca Corporation, Asahi Kasei Microsystems Co., Ltd. BeAll
Developers, Inc., BLUE TEK Co., Ltd., Canopus Co., Ltd., CMC Magnetics
Corporation, CyberLink Inc., Daewoo Electronics Co., Ltd., DVS Korea Co.,
Ltd., Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Fujifilm Microdevices Co., Ltd., Fujitsu
Ten Limited, Funai Electric Co., Ltd., General Electric International,
Inc., Hitachi Media Electronics Co., Ltd., Hitachi-LG Data Storage, Inc.,
Ikegami Tsushinki Co., Ltd., IMAGICA Corp., Intervideo Japan Inc., Japan
Broadcasting Corporation, Kenwood Corporation, Kodak Japan Ltd., Konica
Corporation, Kyokuto Boeki Kaisha, Ltd., LG Electronics Inc., MEDIKEN
Inc., Memory-Tech Corporation, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Mitsubishi
Electric Corporation, Mitsui Chemicals, Inc., Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd.,
Nippon Columbia Co., Ltd., Nippon Precision Circuits Inc., Oak Technology,
K.K., Onkyo Corporation, Open Interface, Inc., OPT Corporation, Optodisc
Technology Corporation, OPTROM, Inc., Orion Electric Co., Ltd., Pulstec
Industrial Co., Ltd., Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Seahan Media, Shibasoku
Co., Ltd., Shinano Kenshi Co., Ltd., SKC Co., Ltd., Sonic Solutions, TDK
Corporation, TEAC Corporation, Teijin Chemicals Ltd., Teijin Limited Texas
Instruments Japan Limited, The Technology of Electronics, Information
& Communication Inc., Ulead Systems, Inc., Unaxis Japan Co., Ltd.,
Zoran Japan Corporation
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source: Panasonic
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