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First of all Mr. Aizawa (RWPPI Representative,) thanked all of the member companies and participants for their generous cooperation and the success they achieved in relation to the presentation of the RWPPI Round Robin Test report.
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RWPPI Representative
Mr. Aizawa |
The report on Stage 7 of the Round Robin Test was then announced.
At the beginning, the chairman of the Round Robin Test, Mr. Ishii (Pioneer,) presented an overall summary of Stage 7 that was implemented this time. His report explained that tests covering 36 member manufacturers, 265 models, and 369 items were implemented, and that the "mount check" stage was added to the tests this time for the first time. The "mount check " test investigates what kind of problems may arise in advance when a disc with new standards is accidentally played back by the user on a piece of equipment that does not support such new standards. The results of this test not only provides data that can be fed back onto each company's model designs for their next production, it also proves to be a valuable source of information for quality assurance divisions and customer service divisions.
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PIONEER Corp.
Mr. Ishii |
The first report on achievements was given by the Physical WG co-chairman, Mr. Ogaki (Sony NEC Optiarc Inc.) The report announced that tests were implemented on 8x DVD-R, 16x DVD-R, 16x DVD-RW DL (Dual Layer), and 8cm DVD-R DL discs this time, and that all were found to have high levels of performance and compatibility
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Sony NEC Optiarc Inc.
Mr. Ogaki |
Writer WG chairman, Mr. Shinohara (TEAC) announced that recording and playback compatibility tests were implemented on 8cm DVD-RW and DVD-R discs, and the mount check tests were implemented on non-recorded and recorded DVD-Download Discs, and no problems were discovered at any level.
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TEAC Corp.
Mr. Shinohara |
Recorder WG chairman, Mr. Kawahara (Pioneer) announced that 51 tests were implemented on 23 models manufactured by eight companies, and it was confirmed that all had high levels of compatibility, leading to the belief that this provides an indication of activities to improve compatibility in the future.
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PIONEER Corp.
Mr. Kawahara |
Playback Compatibility WG chairman, Mr. Shinoki (Kenwood) announced that mount check tests were implemented on 135 models with DVD-RW DL and DVD-Download discs, and that all member companies showed a deep interest. He also announced that problems were discovered in several of the models, which provided valuable information that should be fed back to all related divisions in each company.
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KENWOOD Corp.
Mr. Shinoki |
And the final special lecture on the agenda was an introduction by Mr. Koboshi of Hot Album Com on "HOT ALBUM," which uses the EVERPLAY standard.
It is now possible for anybody to effortlessly save images taken with a digital camera onto optical discs (currently CD-R) as slideshow data with the use of the EVERYPLAY standard, which was established by the camera film industry, and plans are now underway to transfer this across to DVD discs. Despite the amazing popularity of digital cameras recently, the same cannot be said for saving the images onto optical discs, and the speech contained strong arguments as to why we should increase the popularity of saving data onto optical discs with the use of HOT ALBUM.
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Hot Album Com
Mr. Koboshi |
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