January, 2006
Digital Video Information
For the last three years major consumer electronics companies together with
Hollywood movie content providers, software developers, game platforms
develop is in the competition to develop new movie/game/software disk format
that will replace current DVD disk today. Unfortunately two competing camps
Blu Ray and HD-DVD do not have any plans to merge yet and go full steam to
the market with players and content. We at Key Digital
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would like to inform our
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