MPEG LA Expands Call For HD DVD Patents

High Density Read-Only Disc Optional and Physical Specifications Included [The following is a release from MPEG LA]

January 9, 2008

In its continued response to marketplace interest in the creation of a joint HD DVD patent license including as much essential intellectual property as possible, MPEG LA, LLC today expanded its call for patents essential to the implementation of the HD DVD Standard to include the following specifications: 1) DVD Specifications for High Density Read-Only Disc (HD DVD-ROM) Part 1 Optional Specifications: Triple Layer Twin Format Disc; and 2) DVD Specifications for High Density Read-Only Disc (HD DVD-ROM) Part 1 Physical Specifications (51 Gbytes). MPEG LA’s plan for forming a joint patent portfolio license to provide users with fair, reasonable, nondiscriminatory access to the HD DVD technology as an alternative to negotiating separate licenses was first announced in a 9 May 2007 news release [see http://www.mpegla.com/news/n_07-05-09_pr.pdf]. The inclusion of the DVD Specifications for High Density Read-Only Disc (HD DVD-ROM) Part 1 Optional Specifications: Triple Layer Twin Format Disc and for DVD Specifications for High Density Read-Only Disc (HD DVD-ROM) Part 1 Physical Specifications (51 Gbytes) are in addition to the other parts of the Standard earlier announced. MPEG LA welcomes any party that believes it has patents which are essential to the HD DVD Standard to submit them for evaluation of their essentiality by MPEG LA’s patent evaluators and participate in the joint license creation process if determined to be essential. Further information, along with terms and procedures governing patent submissions, can be found at http://www.mpegla.com/pid/hddvd/. While only issued patents that are essential to the HD DVD Standard will be included in the license, in order to participate in the license development process, patent applications with claims that their owners believe are essential to the HD DVD Standard and likely to issue in a patent also may be submitted for an evaluation of essentiality. HD DVD Standard HD DVD refers to a next generation optical disc format developed by the DVD Forum, an international association of hardware manufacturers, software firms, content providers and other users of Digital Versatile Discs. The format was developed to enable recording, re-writing and playback of high definition (HD) video and audio, as well as storing large amounts of data. The new format uses a blue-violet laser with a short wave length (405 nm) allowing a large amount of data to be packed tightly and stored on a standard size disc. The HD DVD Standard refers generally to (a) a rewritable optical disc, a recordable optical disc and a read-only optical disc; (b) the method of playing such discs; and (c) recording methods. For more information, see http://www.dvdfllc.co.jp/hd_dvd/hd_what.html.

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