China Proposes Rival Video Format 424
Richard Finney writes "Yahoo News is reporting that
the Chinese government is supporting an effort to develop a homegrown standard, called 'AVS,' for compressing digital audio and video in order to avoid paying royalties
on proprietary compression schemes.
The AVS groups website is online but in Chinese."
Piracy? (Score:3, Funny)
Just a thought.
Re:Go China! (Score:0, Funny)
The beauty of standards is... (Score:4, Funny)
(I don't remember who said that but that's daamn right
Adult Verification System? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:1.2 billion (Score:4, Funny)
Well, according to the RIAA the population in China is the equivalent of 900 million people, since the chinese are a bit shorter.
Re:Chinese PEOPLE won't make money (Score:1, Funny)
Well, some of them.
Alright, their friends that gave them money to run their elections in the first place.
AVS (Score:3, Funny)
Re:1.2 billion (Score:1, Funny)
1,289,646,743
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1,289,646,744
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1,289,646,745
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1,289,646,744
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1,289,646,746
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1,2
Gee, I'm really glad they provided a singular digit precision
Re:1.2 billion (Score:2, Funny)
No, no, I won't fall for that! I still remember what happened to Dmitry Sklyarov what he "came to check it out"...
Getting the Kinks Out (Score:3, Funny)
In the clip I saw, a martial artist was moving his mouth extremely rapidly, but the audio was just a slow voice intoning in English:
"So, my young sabretooth, it appears the student has now become the master."
Re:China better than Slashdot?? (Score:2, Funny)
Yup. China is a lot better than Slashdot. Slashdot doesn't have any farms, so couldn't support its population without relying entirely on imports from the so called `real world'.
Re:1.2 billion (Score:2, Funny)
Re:if only theu made friends with India... (Score:3, Funny)