See D-9. There have been several HD formats introduced in the Chinese market that were developed to avoid paying royalties to other countries, including the Forward Versatile Disc (see FVD ...

The Taiwanese offering, called Forward Versatile Disc (FVD), is cheaper, more simple and more compatible with existing technologies than either of the new offerings. The technology is to be put to ...

OES (Opto-Electronics & Systems Laboratories), the unit of Taiwan’s government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) that developed the forward versatile disc (FVD), stated ...

FVD (forward versatile disc), the Taiwan-developed red-laser high-definition DVD format, debuted internationally at the recent 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) held in the US ...

A group of IT companies, led by IBM exec Alan E. Bell, mediate a compromise between SD and MMCD that results in the Digital Versatile Disc (DVD). That pact is announced at Comdex in November.