GristyMcFisty used our news submit to tell us
that the Deparment of Justice in the United States has launched a preliminary
inquiry into the activities of the group of companies that is developing and
promoting the blu-ray format
 Citing
people familiar with the matter, the paper said the Justice Department is
looking into the Blu-ray group, which was founded by Sony, Matsushita,
Philips and seven other major electronics companies. The group is
promoting the Blu-ray disc, a format that can store about six times as
much data as a conventional DVD, it said.
According to the paper, a person close to the
DVD Forum, an official standards-setting body for DVDs that includes
hardware and software companies, said the Justice Department is looking
into whether the group's members potentially acted to impede the forum's
technical progress |
More information regarding this matter can be found in the
orginal article on the
CNN website.
Source: CNN.com
