CBHD was a fairly pointless standard that had more to do with China's constant attempts to create its own video standards than any attempt to push forward the technology. They took only the one part of HD DVD that was inferior to Blu-ray, the actual media, tweaked it to ensure patent royalties would be payable to Chinese companies (without actually improving it in any way) and replaced HD DVD's excellent Advanced Content system with crude DVD-like functionality.
About the only positive thing that might have come from the technology taking off would have been relatively easy to make dual format HD DVD/CBHD decks, which would have ensured people with HD DVD collections would have been assured of hardware support for years to come. But even that's a "They might have done it" rather than a "They would have".
"tweaked it to ensure patent royalties would be payable to Chinese companies..."
No. Not Chinese companies. The Communist Party of China (i.e. the Chinese government). Every "company" is required to have some stake owned by the government.
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CBHD was a fairly pointless standard that had more to do with China's constant attempts to create its own video standards than any attempt to push forward the technology. They took only the one part of HD DVD that was inferior to Blu-ray, the actual media, tweaked it to ensure patent royalties would be payable to Chinese companies (without actually improving it in any way) and replaced HD DVD's excellent Advanced Content system with crude DVD-like functionality.
About the only positive thing that might have come from the technology taking off would have been relatively easy to make dual format HD DVD/CBHD decks, which would have ensured people with HD DVD collections would have been assured of hardware support for years to come. But even that's a "They might have done it" rather than a "They would have".
May it rot.
"tweaked it to ensure patent royalties would be payable to Chinese companies..."
No. Not Chinese companies. The Communist Party of China (i.e. the Chinese government). Every "company" is required to have some stake owned by the government.