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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.-Entertainment-
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.
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.
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.-Game-
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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