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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	According to [url=http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/19/blu-ray-vs-hd-dvd-state-of-the-s-union-s-division/]Engadget[/url], "Companies listed as Members of the Board or Managing Members" include: [b]Blu-Ray[/b]: Apple, Inc., Dell, Inc., Hewlett Packard Company, Hitachi, Ltd., LG Electronics Inc., Mitsubishi, Electric Corporation, Panasonic (Matsushita Electric), Pioneer Corporation, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Sharp Corporation, Sony Corporation, Sun Microsystems, TDK Corporation, Thomson, Twentieth Century Fox, Walt Disney Pictures and Television, and Warner Bros. [b]HD-DVD[/b]: Memory-Tech Corporation, NEC Corporation, Sanyo Electric Co., and Toshiba Corporation. They have a list of "Companies listed as Members, Associate Members, or Contributors" which is much longer. [quote]Other interesting facts: * The Nichi Corporation, who holds the design patents to the Blu-ray's laser system, sits as an associate member of the HD DVD Promotion Group. * Even though Apple sits on the Blu-ray Board of Directors, its DVD Studio Pro software supports authoring HD DVD media. * Blu-ray, unlike HD DVD, requires a hard coating on its discs because it's 0.5m closer to the surface. The polymer coating it uses, called Durabis, was developed by TDK and is supposedly extremely resilient and fingerprint resistant. * The Java platform is mandatory on Blu-ray as it's the standard for menus/multimedia (i.e. all Blu-ray systems must support JVM). * Microsoft, of course, did eventually side with HD DVD -- not surprising, given its number of long-standing IP cross-licensing deals with Toshiba. HD DVD systems continue to run Windows CE. * The first consumer Blu-ray device in the US market wound up being the Samsung BD-P1000, and not the PlayStation 3 as expected.[/quote] Loading...
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