DVD6C to License Recordable DVD Licenses.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 19, 2002 The DVD6C The DVD6C Licensing Agency or DVD6C Licensing Group [1] is an industry consortium which license a portfolio of patents required to produce DVD discs, players, drives, recorders, decoders, and encoders. Licensing Agency (DVD6C), the industry body representing the seven leading developers of DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. technology and formats -- AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Time Warner Inc., Hitachi Hitachi (hētä`chē), city (1990 pop. 202,141), Ibaraki prefecture, E central Honshu, Japan, on the Kashima Sea. The city is a leading producer of Japan's electrical equipment. , Ltd., IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Corporation, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (三菱電機株式会社 Corporation, Toshiba Corporation (company) Toshiba Corporation - A Japanese technology manufacturer with 364 subsidiaries worldwide. Toshiba makes and sells electronics for home, office, industry and health care including information and communication systems, electronic components, heavy electrical apparatus, and Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. (JVC JVC Victor Company of Japan (or Japan's Victor Company) JVC Jewelers Vigilance Committee JVC Jesuit Volunteer Corps JVC Jet Vane Control (directs VLS-launched missiles) JVC Jonker-Volgenant-Castanon ) -- today announced that it expects to start global licensing of essential patents for DVD-Audio and recordable DVD See DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW and DVD-RAM. products on or about January 1, 2003. Licenses will cover both drives and media, including DVD-Audio, DVD-RAM A rewritable DVD disc endorsed by the DVD Forum. Using phase change technology, DVD-RAMs are like removable hard disks, and the media can be rewritten 100,000 times compared to 1,000 times for DVD-RW and DVD+RW. The first DVD-RAM drives with a capacity of 2.6GB (single sided) or 5. , DVD-RW (DVD-Read Write) A rewritable (re-recordable) DVD disc for both movies and data from the DVD Forum. Also called "DVD Dash RW" and "DVD Minus RW," DVD-RW uses phase change recording. The media hold 4.7GB per side and can be rewritten 1,000 times. and DVD-R (DVD-Recordable) A write-once (read only) DVD disc for both movies and data endorsed by the DVD Forum. DVD-Rs are often called "DVD Dash Rs" or "DVD Minus Rs" to distinguish them from the competing "Plus R" format (see DVD+R). . DVD6C's license portfolio for recordable DVDs has gathered together essential patents owned by its member companies. Licensees using its services will benefit from one-stop shopping for key intellectual properties, and be able to apply it to products that comply with DVD-format specifications defined by the DVD Forum A membership organization devoted to defining DVD standards for read-only, rewritable, write-once, video and audio use. Members participate in working groups to develop new standards. . Interested parties are also free to negotiate separate license agreements with DVD6C's seven member companies, rather than taking out a single portfolio license. The companies have committed to provide such licenses for their patents under fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms and conditions. The DVD6C joint licensing program was launched in June 1999 to provide one-stop shopping for essential DVD-Video- and DVD-ROM-related patents owned by DVD6C members. Today's announcement marks the addition of recordable DVD-related essential patents to the Agency's license portfolio. For the potential licensee's convenience, royalty fees under this licensing program are shown below. The details need to be confirmed in the formal agreement.
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Category Item Royalty
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Read-only DVD-Video Player 4% of the net selling price
Hardware DVD-ROM Drive or US$4.00, whichever is
DVD-Audio Player greater.
DVD-Multi Player
or any combination thereof
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DVD-Video Decoder 4% of the net selling price
or US$1.00, whichever is
greater.
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Recordable DVD-RAM Drive 4% of the net selling price
Hardware DVD-RW Drive or US$6.00, whichever is
DVD-R Drive greater.
DVD-Video Recorder
DVD-Multi Recorder
or any combination thereof
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DVD-Video Encoder 4% of the net selling price
or US$1.50, whichever is
greater.
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Read-only DVD-ROM Disc US 6.5 cents per disc.
Media DVD-Video Disc
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DVD-Audio Disc US 7.5 cents per disc.
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Recordable DVD-RAM Disc For Discs, 4% of the net
Media DVD-RW Disc selling price or US 7.5
DVD-R Disc cents, whichever is greater.
Case For Cases, 4% of the net
selling price or US 0.5
cents, whichever is greater.
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For further information on Recordable DVD licenses, contact one of
the following regional agents;
Japan:
Yoshitaka Honda
General Manager
License Management
Toshiba DVD License Services, Inc.
5th Floor, Sumitomo-Hamamatsucho Bldg.
18-16, Hamamatsucho 1-chome, Minato-ku
Tokyo 105-0013, Japan
Phone: +81-3-5777-3286
Fax: +81-3-5401-2503
E-mail: yoshitaka.honda@toshiba-tdls.co.jp
Europe and Africa:
Toshiba of Europe Limited
Hiroyuki Tsuruta
General Manager
Audrey House, Ely Place
London, EC1N 6SN
United Kingdom
Phone: +44(0)20 7421 7610
Fax: +44(0)20 7421 7626
E-mail: hiroyuki.tsuruta@toshiba.co.jp
Asia (excluding Japan), Oceania and the Middle East:
Hitachi Ltd.
Joji Ozaki
Department Manager
DVD Licensing Center
292, Yoshida-cho, Totsuka-ku,
Yokohama 244-0817, Japan
Phone: +81-45-866-5815
Fax: +81-45-866-5906
E-Mail: ozakijo@itg.hitachi.co.jp
The Americas:
Matsushita Electric Corporation of America
Masahisa Saito
Exclusive Regional Agent for DVD 6C Licensing Agency
c/o Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
201 Redwood Shores Parkway
Redwood Shores, California 94065, USA
Phone: 650-802-3146
Fax: 650-802-3100
E-Mail: saitom@panasonic.com
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