Digest of the Seminar
The 4th Round Robin Test Taiwan Seminar

Through joint sponsorship with the Taiwan Recording Industries Association (TRIA), RWPPI successfully held its fourth Round-Robin Test (RRT) Seminar on March 8, 2007, at the Grand Formosa Regent Taipei Hotel in Taiwan. Some 50 people participated in the event. The seminar included presentation results of the “Stage 6” recording and playback compatibility tests for DVD-R 16x, 8cm DVD-RW 2x, DVD-R DL 4x and 8x related products (optical storage discs, writers, recorders, and PC software), completed this January. At the same time, the seminar sought to recruit new participation of Taiwanese companies to the RWPPI and RRT. The Stage 6 Test was conducted jointly with the RDVDC as the world’s largest Joint Round-Robin Test (JRT).

Following the opening address by RWPPI Representative Mr. Koki Aizawa, the guest speech by Dr. Der-Ray Huang, Chairman of ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute) was made.

RWPPI Representative Mr. Koki Aizawa	ITRI Dr. Der-Ray Huang, Chairman

The RWPPI activities presentation was then made by its Secretary General, Mr. Masami Morishita, followed by the report of TRIA (Taiwan Recording-Media Industries Association) activities by its Secretary General, Mr. John Wu. In continuation, the outline and summary of the Round-Robin Test, and test reports from each of its Working Groups followed.
Reports on the recently implemented test included the report from Victor Company of Japan’s Mr. Kuniharu Fujiki, who is Chair of the Physical Working Group; a report from Pioneer’s Mr. Toshihiko Maruyama, who is Co-Chair of the Writer Working Group; a report on the Recorder Working Group from Pioneer’s Mr. Yasunari Kawahara; and finally a report from Kenwood’s Mr. Yuta Shinoki, who is Co-Chair of the Playback Compatible Working Group.

RWPPI 森下 事務局長	TRIA TRIA 事務局長 John Wu 氏	ヘッドチェア 石井 氏

Physical WG Chair Mr. Fujiki	Writer WG Co-Chair Mr. Maruyama	Recorder WG Chair Mr. Kawahara	Playback Compatible WG Co-Chair Mr. Shinoki

At the end of the seminar, the special lecture by Mr. Tomohiko Komatsu, CEO of BOC (Holdings) Ltd. presented insight on “Future Trends of Red Laser Optical Disc.” Starting with recording media market trends, Blu-ray / HD DVD topics from CES 2007 were presented, along with the newest trends as “Down Load and writing on DVD with CSS” and “Hi-Def writing on Recordable DVD Disc” and much more were explained and introduced. Attendees showed strong interest in these topics, where many people participating in the seminar stayed after its conclusion to chat with Mr. Komatsu, the chairs, and co-chairs of the working groups.

Mr. Tomohiko Komatsu, CEO of BOC (Holdings) Ltd.

Furthermore, a Technical Meeting with RRT members and engineers from Taiwan and other countries was held on the following day (Friday, March 9th) in the meeting room at the ITRI campus in Hsinchu. Roughly 30 people attended the meeting, where active question-and-answer discussions were made. It started with the opening speech by the RWPPI Secretary General, Mr. Morishita, followed by presentations of “DVD-RW DL Development” by Mr. Fujiki of JVC, “CSS on DVD-R” by Mr. Maruyama of Pioneer, “Actual Circumstances and Problems in High-Speed Optical Storage Discs” by Mr. Chu of RITEK, future of “Digital Broadcast and DVD Recorders” by Mr. Motoyoshi of Sony, and the Questionnaire results of Drive and Optical Storage Discs by Mr. Ohwada of Sony were made. The technical meeting also featured presentations from RRT working group chairs and co-chairs that presented problem areas in product design and the market with regard to compatibility between hardware and media, with free open discussion at the end. The participating engineers gave the meeting high marks, saying that they were able to obtain extremely useful information.

RITEK Corporation Mr. Chu	Sony Corporation Mr. Motoyoshi	Sony Corporation Mr. Ohwada	Sony NEC Optiarc Inc. Mr. Oogaki

RWPPI is grateful for the valuable cooperation extended to it in the holding of this meeting by TRIA, RITEK Corporation, and ITRI

RWPPI will continue working to maintain and improve DVD-RW and DVD-R recording and playback compatibility through its Round-Robin Tests.