Audio Video Standard
The
People's Republic of China government is supporting an effort to develop own
standard for compressing
digital audio and
video, to assert its technological independence from the rest of the world. State-run media quoted industry officials are saying the aim is to enable domestic companies to avoid using the dominant
MPEG standards, which require
royalty payments. The competing Chinese standard, known as
AVS, will be proposed as a national standard in
2004.
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