* las <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, 26 Aug 2000
| This would depend upon Sony and whom ever (does anyone know who has the
| license for DVDs?)
The DVD Consortium, an association of many electronics manufacturers and
others. There is no one company backing DVD.
| has the license for the DVD format. Don't forget Sony and Phillips
| managed to get together bring out the CD (then they split and came out
| with the MD and DCC).
Neither of which have anywhere nearly as strong a consumer adoption as
CD-DA and DVD-Video.
| I know a patent usually expires on a product after 17 years. But I wonder
| how standards work. Once the patent expires it seems that you can change
| the specifications and maybe your product will be backwards compatible (if
| you want) or not-if you don't care.
Who owns what patents has nothing to do with it, unless someone devises a
proprietary format, which is antithetical to DVD.
[...]
| Have a nice weekend, Ratman (some day you have to explain to people like me
| who are the uninformed, why you have the handle Stainless Steel Rat, or why
| anyone would want to for that matter).
Long story, but read some Harry Harrison when you can.
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