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Sony, Philips and HP to develop own DVD-RAM format. (TechWatch) (Company Business and Marketing)
Even as the ten-member DVD Forum in Tokyo stamped its approval on the DVD-RAM standard, some of its members were wavering in their support. Sony, Philips and nonmember Hewlett-Packard, while still claiming to support the compromise standard, announced pla ns to pursue a slightly different approach that delivers 3 GB of data per side rather instead of 2.6 GB.
The new standard is similar to an earlier Sony-Philips proposal, which the group rejected. Its unique selling point is a technique for storing data on the discs that records only groove …
