The companies, which call themselves the Galaxy group, said they expected the first significant application of digital watermarks to be in DVD _ digital videodisk _ systems.
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But it has also created an enormous demand for bootleg copies of American videocassettes and videodisks, the large, CD-like platters that can store an entire movie.
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The administration did not say whether, to meet American demands, China would have to close the 29 plants that are producing 70 million compact disks and videodisks annually.
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Digital videodisk, or DVD, is a new technology in home entertainment that can play cinema-quality pictures on disks similar to the way compact discs store music.
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The two camps developing competing digital videodisk formats have begun negotiations to unify their formats in an effort to prevent a costly war over a standard like the VCR battle of 1980s.
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Philips is now at the forefront of digital videodisks, a technology hammered out with companies like Sony and Toshiba that would also blend the features of CD-ROMs and video disks.
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An executive who played a central role in Toshiba Corp .'s victory last year in an industry-format battle over the new digital videodisk was named Toshiba's president Tuesday.
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Japanese electronics giant Matsushita Electric Industrial Co . will set up a company in Los Angeles on Monday with MCA Inc . to produce films for digital videodisk systems, a newspaper reported Sunday.
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Toshiba said it would begin selling digital videodisk players in the United States by next September at a price between $ 500 and $ 700, while sales in Japan would start later in the fall.
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Forty-four school, college and university, and state and public libraries were provided with a dozen American Memory collections on CD-ROMs and videodisks ( these formats are no longer being supported ).
