Philips started licensing DVD standards
Philips announced the beginning of DVD ReWritable/Recordable systems patent licensing. This program will touch patents for all DVD+RW and DVD+R discs, drives, software as well as patent rights of Philips, Sony and Hewlett-Packard. As of DVD-RW / DVD-R discs and drives the program touches upon Philips, Sony and Pioneer patent rights.
Simultaneously, the company launched DVD players and discs licensing (DVD-Video and DVD-ROM patents belonging to Hitachi, Matsushita, Mitsubishi, Time Warner, Toshiba, Victor Company of Japan, Thomson Multimedia), DVD copyproof licensing (Macrovision), MPEG-2 Video licensing (the list, headed by Philips), DOLBY Digital AC-3 (Dolby Laboratories).
The details are here.
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