GristyMcFisty used our news submit to tell us about a pretty cool concept being trialed in Japan!
 POWEREDCOM Inc., Toshiba Corporation and Tokyo Electric Power Company Inc. (TEPCO) today announced that they will start trial operation of a new DVD content distribution service, "Hikari de DVD," that delivers video to DVD recorders in the home via a high capacity fiber-optic broadband network. The trial will start on 1 December 2004 in Tokyo and its vicinity with a 1,000 monitors. Viewers interested in becoming monitors can sign up for the trial at the [Japanese language only!!] "Hikari de DVD" website from 2 November.
"Hikari de DVD" is the first video content
distribution system to combine the capabilities of a high speed Fiber to
the Home (FTTH) broadband network, with the versatility of a DVD recorder
able to support downloads of movies and music to a DVD-RAM disc. The
service adopts DVD-VR (video recording), the standard format for DVD
recorders, allowing it to achieve a high level of usability. The service
uses Content Protection for Recordable Media (CPRM), a standard content
protection technology for DVD recorders, in a digital rights management
(DRM) system that supports a high level security for content distribution.
The system supports both rental and sales of content.
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You can visit over at Home Cinema Machine to read some more in the press release.
Let's hope this concept is a success and also, when in the heck is everybody
else going fiber optic! I'm sure ready!
Source: Home Cinema Machine
