The AVS (Audio Video Coding Standard ") gennante format being developed by China as an alternative to MPEG in order to avoid the use of MPEG-due royalties (which according to Chinese estimates, within the next 10 years amounted to over 300 million U.S. dollars) would - as Chinese DVD player manufacturers to pay 4 to 5 dollars per unit to the MPEG patent holders, however, AVS will incur less than 12 cents as royalties. AVS will be back in 2004, Chinese national standard, the end of this year is the first AVS-chip hardware see the light. AVS will be used for compressing audio and video for TV, multimedia broadcasting on mobile phones, DVD players, etc. AVS is developed without the use of foreign patents. The Audio Video Coding Standard Working Group of China "includes more than 50 universities and industrial companies in and outside China, including Microsoft, Philips, On2, the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Dolby Laboratories, STMicroelectronics Ltd., LG Electronics and IBM. more infos at bei www.avs.org.cn
more infos at bei www.avs.org.cn