The 33rd RWPPI General Meeting was held on October 28th, at the head office of Pioneer Corporation in Meguro ward. This time, "BenQ Corporation" (a major Taiwanese manufacturer) was welcomed as a newly joined member to total 69 RWPPI member companies.
The meeting started with the speech by Mr. Koki Aizawa, the Representative of RWPPI. "We’ve been hearing a lot about the next generation discs from the past and now, but the truth of the matter is that business centered on DVD-RW & R related products continue to make excellent releases, and will surely be the prime selling products for this Christmas season and thereafter. As a result, our RWPPI sponsored Round Robin Test activities will play an even more vital role." The speech was delivered to the member companies with strong expectations wishing great success.

After the Representative's speech, new members joining made their company introduction with strong ambitions: Wealth Fair Technologies Ltd. from Hong Kong, and BenQ Corporation from Taiwan.

Next, Mr. Muramatsu of Pioneer Corporation presented the current DVD-RW DL and DVD-R DL 8x disc specifications that is being discussed and established at the DVD Forum. The technological aspects are under study now, where both 12cm and 8cm specifications are considered, showing great expectations for expansion and benefits of the DVD camcorder market. In order to sustain playback compatibility with existing devices, the basic concept of minimizing technical changes, and to announce the publication of the Version 2.0 format book in early 2006, so that manufacturers may prepare product entry into the market was explained. As for the 8x speed recording compatible DVD-R DL disc, the necessity for implementing higher speed recording compatibility in the specifications were also explained.

The introduction of new products by 5 member companies followed. First, Mr. Matsunobu of Ulead Systems, Inc. and Mr. Ueda of Victor Company of Japan explained and actually demonstrated how simple editing of video or still pictures from digital cameras and digital video cameras can be achieved, and stored on DVD-RW discs using the PC application "Digital Story." Mr. Matsunobu also demonstrated the new product "Media One Gallery," the digital media integration tool from InterVideo, Inc.

Next, Mr. Toyama of CyberLink, Inc. introduced the application software "Power Producer 6," with features for adding, editing, and deleting of the play list on your PC can be made from a DVD recorder VR mode recorded CPRM supported disc. For the hardware presentation, Mr. Hamada of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation demonstrated the features of their new "Raku Reco" DVD recorder series with their new model "DVR-HE50W." As a much brought up CM topic in Japan nowadays, it features a "Highlights Playback System" that enables users to automatically playback highlight scenes of sports events, as well as easy editing features with "auto cut i" functions that are equipped. This was followed with Victor Company of Japan's "Kairoku Lupin" series DVD Recorder equipped with new technology introduced by Mr. Namiki. Their originally developed "Super MPEG-2 pre & post processor" enables high quality picture recording & playback, and equipped with their "intelligent 2 pass encode" technology, high picture quality dubbing from HDD to DVD is possible. Mr. Namiki explained that JVC will continue to appeal technology in their DVD recorders with the "3-in-1 function, video quality, and easy use" points in developing their DVD recorders.