Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The DVD-Forum is an organization, that manages standards of DVD disks. Table of contents 1 Mission 2 Founding members 3 What does the Forum do? 4 Address 5 News 6 External Link Mission The DVD Forum is an international association of hardware manufacturers, software firms and other users of Digital Versatile Discs. The Forum was created for the purpose of exchanging and disseminating ideas and information about the DVD Format and its technical capabilities, improvements and innovations. The Forum works to promote broad acceptance of DVD products on a worldwide basis, across entertainment, consumer electronics and IT industries. Membership is open to any corporation or organization which is engaged in activities related to DVD research, development and/or manufacturing, or any software firm or other users of DVD products that are interested in developing and improving the DVD Format. Forum Members are not required to support the DVD Format to the exclusion of other formats. The DVD Forum was founded in 1995 under the original name DVD Consortium. Ten companies (see below for listing) founded the organization. Founding members Hitachi Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Pioneer Electronic Corporation Royal Philips Electronics N.V. Sony Corporation Thomson Time Warner Inc. Toshiba Corporation Victor Company of Japan (JVC) Today, our membership includes more than 230 companies. The Steering Committee serves as the executive body of the Forum. What does the Forum do? Defines DVD Format specifications (see DVD Format & Logo Licensing) Publishes reference materials and newsletters for members Creates DVD Format Books (published by the DVD Format/Logo Licensing Corporation) Licenses DVD Format/Logo (through the DVD Format/Logo Licensing Corporation) Administers DVD Verification Laboratories Holds worldwide DVD Conferences and promotes information about DVD, including the DVD Forum web site. Address DVD Forum Secretariat Shiba Shimizu Bldg. 5F 2-3-11, Shibadaimon, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0012, Japan TEL: +81 3/5777-2881 FAX: +81 3/5777-2882 News On November 18, 2003 the steering committee of the DVD-Forum has decided with eight to six votes to make the Advanced Optical Disk the HDTV successor of the DVD. External Link DVD-Forum Home Page This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.