Although over 80 percent of all DVD products in the current global market are produced in China, all DVD core technologies and patents are held by foreign enterprises. Each DVD produced in China requires a patent fee of 18 USD, making profitability very low
From that, and the broken English, I infer they're talking about DVD players, not DVD discs. $18 per DVD player in patent royalties doesn't sound completely unlikely.
I still feels it's a wee bit of propaganda/sales talk though. No studios (except possibly Chinese ones) would support this format. So their only market could then be China.
So if they want to make a profit out of this it would be on the home market. Not very likely that they would make much more profit out of that.
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The article seems to be classical Chinese propaganda.
For instance it states: "Each DVD produced in China requires a patent fee of 18 USD".
Obviously these people either have a very strange exchange rate between Chinese currency and USD or this is total BS. 18$ per DVD produced?
The full quote is:
Although over 80 percent of all DVD products in the current global market are produced in China, all DVD core technologies and patents are held by foreign enterprises. Each DVD produced in China requires a patent fee of 18 USD, making profitability very low
From that, and the broken English, I infer they're talking about DVD players, not DVD discs. $18 per DVD player in patent royalties doesn't sound completely unlikely.
You may be right on that one. Sounds more likely.
I still feels it's a wee bit of propaganda/sales talk though. No studios (except possibly Chinese ones) would support this format. So their only market could then be China.
So if they want to make a profit out of this it would be on the home market. Not very likely that they would make much more profit out of that.