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Digital Entertainment Group (DEC)
Offices: Los Angeles, California
DEC serves to advocate and promote the many
benefits associated with DVD while providing
updated information regarding the format
to both the media and the retail trade.
As an industry funded, nonprofit organization,
the DEG also offers a forum for member companies
to engage in ongoing discussions concerning
various issues and opportunities which relate
to other new digital technologies that may
emerge in the future. The DEG serves as
a single voice for the consumer home video
and audio segments of the home entertainment
marketplace and a clearinghouse for information
about DVD-Video, DVD-Audio and future digital
entertainment formats. |
Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA)
Offices: Portland, Oregon
DLNA will align industry leaders in the
CE, mobile, and PC industries through digital
interoperability. Industry collaboration
is not limited to just CE, mobile, and PC
manufacturers. It is an entire ecosystem
of companies that together offer consumers
a broad set of complementary products and
services. DLNA holds that an ecosystem properly
designed for digital interoperability must
start with the consumer in mind and include
contributors that can help bring all the
necessary elements of the digital home network
to market and that industry collaboration
must encompass manufacturers, software and
application developers, and service and
content providers. |
DSL Forum
Offices: Freemont, California
The DSL Forum is an international industry
consortium of nearly 200 leading service
providers, equipment manufacturers and other
interested parties, focused on developing
the full potential of broadband DSL to meet
the needs of the mass market. With the established
goal of 200 million customers by 2005, the
DSL Forum works to streamline processes,
develop specifications and share best practices
that set the stage for effective deployments,
and explosive global DSL growth. By developing
new standards and embracing new applications,
the DSL Forum is tailoring DSL to meet the
needs of the next generation of multi-media
services and the online community. |
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DVD Copy Control Association
Offices: Morgan Hill, California
The DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA)
is a not-for-profit corporation with responsibility
for licensing CSS (Content Scramble System)
to manufacturers of DVD hardware, discs
and related products. Licensees include
the owners and manufacturers of the content
of DVD discs; creators of encryption engines,
hardware and software decrypters; and manufacturers
of DVD Players and DVD-ROM drives. |
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DVD Forum
Offices: Tokyo, Japan
The DVD Forum is an international association
of hardware manufacturers, software firms,
content providers and other users of Digital
Versatile Discs. The Forum's purpose is
to exchange and disseminate ideas and information
about the DVD Format and its technical capabilities,
improvements and innovations. The Forum
works to promote broad acceptance of DVD
products on a worldwide basis, across entertainment,
consumer electronics and IT industries. |
DVD+RW Alliance
Offices: Tokyo, Japan
The DVD+RW Alliance is a voluntary group
of industry-leading personal computing manufacturers,
optical storage and electronics manufacturers
including Dell, Hewlett-Packard Company,
MCC/Verbatim, Philips Electronics, Ricoh
Company, Sony Corporation, Thomson Multimedia
and Yamaha Corporation. The group seeks
to develop and promote a universally compatible,
rewritable DVD format to enable true convergence
between personal computing and consumer
electronics products. |
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Entertainment & Leisure Software Publishing
Association (ELSPA)
Offices: London, England
ELSPA was founded in 1989 to establish a
specific and collective identity for the
British computer and video games industry.
Since then, the membership has steadily
grown from 12 to nearly 100 companies, including
almost all the major companies concerned
with the publishing and distribution of
interactive leisure and entertainment software
in the UK. ELSPA works to protect, promote
and provide for the interests of all its
members, as well as addressing issues that
affect the industry as a whole. |
Entertainment Software Association (ESA)
Offices: Washington, DC
ESA is the US association exclusively dedicated
to serving the business and public affairs
needs of companies that publish video and
computer games for video game consoles,
personal computers, and the Internet. ESA
members collectively account for more than
85 percent of the $6.35 billion in entertainment
software sold in the US in 2001, and billions
more in export sales of US-made entertainment
software. |
Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB)
Offices: New York, New York
ESRB is an independent, self-regulatory
entity that provides comprehensive support
services to companies in the interactive
entertainment software industry. Established
in 1994, the ESRB is the nation's leading
non-profit, entertainment software rating
body. Today, after rating over 7,000 game
titles, the ESRB has evolved into a dynamic
organization. It provides services not only
for rating software titles, but also for
rating websites and online games, for ensuring
online privacy protection, and for reviewing
advertising created by the interactive entertainment
industry. |
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Game Audio Network Guild (GANG)
Offices: San Juan, California
GANG is a non-profit organization established
to educate the masses in regards to interactive
audio by providing information, instruction,
resources, guidance and enlightenment not
only to its members, but to content providers
and listeners throughout the world. GANG
empowers its members by establishing resources
for education, business, technical issues,
community, publicity and recognition. GANG
also supports career development for aspiring
game audio professionals, publishers, developers
and students. |
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