Re: Chinese and EVD and DVD

klm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> More reports from:
> http://english.people.com.cn/200311/21/eng20031121_128733.shtml

Sigh Mok, I told you you should gotta reduce your time spend in
reading english People daily.

> Quotes: The move aims to reduce the drain of what domestic DVD  
> makers consider exorbitant patent royalties they must pay to Japanese
> electronics conglomerates and also to avoid over-reliance on foreign
> technology

You forgot one thing according to the news you present here. China is
now a major DVD player maker in the world.  Chinese makes DVD player,
and sell it to Japan, US, Europe, and else for export. If Japanese
companies wanna royalty fees, it is only a part of the cost for the
player.  That is, today if Japan wanna charge anything, you just raise
the price when you export. The end user pays for the royalty fee.

Of course, retrospective is another story where you can't raise the
fees to the consumers.

> The government contributed 10 million yuan, or one quarter of R&D
> costs, in 1999 after nine big electronics makers, including Sony Corp
> and Toshiba Corp., pressured Chinese DVD makers to pay $9 in
> retroactive royalties for each player exported. The consortium charges
> 500,000 yuan in licensing fees and $2 in royalties for each player
> manufactured. 
> 
>  domestic DVD makers will switch to EVD because royalty payments
> totaling 2.7 billion yuan, or $325.3 million, have eaten into their
> profits.
>