10 expressions of interest
The ARDG co-chairs have received 10 expressions of interest. Four of these are VBI-based (that is, they provide data in a publicly-documented place and a publicly-documented format in the video signal), and the other six appear to be watermark-based.
The proposers and proposals are:
- Consumer Electronics Association: CGMS-A (VBI)
- VEIL Interactive Technologies: CGMS-A+ (VBI plus visible mark)
- Visionaire Technology Corporation: a "patent-pending" line 21 VBI technology
- Macrovision: an unspecified VBI technology that also uses the horizontal blanking interval
- Philips: two video watermark proposals based on detection by display devices
- Kenwood Corporation: a video watermark proposal
- Dwight Cavendish Systems: RightsMaster (a video watermark proposal)
- Toshiba: HIDE (a video watermark proposal previously submitted to DVD CCA)
- VWM Companies: a video watermark proposal
These technologies will be the subject of presentations at the next ARDG meeting on Oct. 22 and 23 in Los Angeles.
Posted by Seth Schoen at October 3, 2003 02:00 PM