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Chinese HD format outsells Blu-ray 3 to 1 | ||||
| NICEBUD posted 2009 Aug 03 07:53 | ||||
| Got this from cdfeaks.com.
http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/17895-chinese-hd-format-outsells-blu ... -to-1.html | ||||
| guns1inger posted 2009 Aug 03 08:07 | ||||
| With that price difference and government backing, it isn't a huge surprise. However at the moment only Warners is putting any material out on the format, and I suspect Sony aren't overly concerned about the Chinese market. | ||||
| bmwracer posted 2009 Aug 03 09:09 | ||||
| But you have to watch the movies from right to left. :P | ||||
| nitro1973 posted 2009 Aug 04 07:52 | ||||
| well, i dont like chinese products... usually they ripp everything and the quality is worse than bad :)
i dont know much about their avs codec, i read somewhere that its ripped from on2 tehcnologies company or something. anyway i hope it will never come out of china, i think we got enough audio video codecs at the moment :) | ||||
| yoda313 posted 2009 Aug 04 17:29 | ||||
| What codecs does it use? I'd be more interested in it as a preserving format if the burners would be cheaper than bluray....... | ||||
| cal_tony posted 2009 Aug 04 20:24 | ||||
| Interesting format and will be watching to see if China pushes it beyond their boundaries.
I'd be interested in anything that wasn't Sony. Tony | ||||
| nitro1973 posted 2009 Aug 05 05:47 | ||||
AVS | ||||
| stiltman posted 2009 Aug 05 10:23 | ||||
It is based on Toshiba's HD-DVD specs, and was licensed from Toshiba for the China market. Looking at the amount of "english" titles that are on the black market there in DVD format, my guess would be that more studios will put movies on the new CBHD. Then I would look to these to start showing up in other countries. | ||||
| Tearren posted 2009 Aug 20 10:25 | ||||
| 3 to 1 is a surprisingly low ratio compared to the population disparity. China has 1.3 Billion people while the US has 300 Million. So in that context, you would expect their own format to sell over 4 to 1 of Blueray (thats not even taking into account the pricing difference).
And for an HD format at $7USD a disk I would expect it would be outselling the dvd format too. | ||||
| genki500 posted 2009 Aug 20 11:45 | ||||
| I guess it partially solves region code problem. No Blue Ray in China.
Poor Sony, I can't see how Sony not license their movie in CBHD. If they don't, some will convert Blue Ray to CBHD (of course, piracy.) If they do, who wants Blue Ray? Have you mail-ordered from HK/China? I don't believe how cheap the shipping cost they charged me. Good luck, Blue Ray. | ||||
| minidv2dvd posted 2009 Aug 20 11:51 | ||||
the files are written to disc like HD-DVD but the codecs used are owned exclusively by the chinese government. |
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