The DVD Forum is quietly working on an optional format for enhanced DVD-Video and DVD players that would deliver advanced interactivity for consumers while salvaging margins for OEMs hard hit by price wars. '.The forum — comprising Hollywood studios, PC and consumer electronics manufacturers, software technology developers and chip vendors — is considering three software proposals that would expand the capabilities of high-end DVD systems.

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It expects to hammer out a standard by next summer, in time for OEMs to ship systems for the Christmas 2002 selling season. 'The ultimate goal of DVD-Interactive is to provide additional capability for users to do interactive operation with content on DVD disks or at Web sites on the Internet,' said Hisashi Yamada, the DVD Forum's Working Group-1 chair. The forum also sees the spec helping content owners re-spin their DVD-Interactive content not only for PC DVD-ROMs but also for new network businesses, he added. Several sources close to the DVD Forum told that the three technologies being investigated for the emerging interactive format include software from InterActual Inc. Originally developed to provide ROM features and Web connectivity for DVD titles; MPEG-4; and Java- and HTML-based technologies promoted by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.

Matsushita confirmed that the company is taking part in the industry discussions at the forum. But Mitsunobu Furumoto, general manager of Matsushita's DVD business promotion department, declined to comment further. InterActual has been working independently of the forum to bring its technology down to consumer DVD players, said Todd Collart, president and chief executive officer at the San Jose company, which has developed the de facto software standard for viewing Internet-connected DVD titles on a PC. InterActual is working with unnamed consumer electronics OEMs to bring its software to market in time for Christmas 2002, said Collart, who also chairs the DVD Forum's Group 1-12. The ad hoc group was established last December to investigate advanced interactivity and Internet connectivity. Basic software technology components used in InterActual's solution are HTML 3.2, JavaScript 1.1 and Macromedia's Flash 3.0. The major studios already use the InterActual APIs to write interactive content directly tied to DVD video playback.