China Hualu Group Ltd, China's biggest AV contents and services provider, has applied to the Blue-ray Disc Association (BDA) for making China's self-developed DRA audio format and AVS video format as blue-ray disc standards.

Hualu has been accepted by the BDA as a contributor with the rights to make suggestions and proposals toward the development of international blue-ray standards.

Zhang Weimin, secretary-general of AVS Industry Alliance, said that if the BDA approves Hualu's application, Chinese AV formats and enterprises will have a louder voice in future blue-ray disc industry.

For more details, please read the full story in Chinese. (http://www.china-cbn.com/s/n/000004/20070904/020000054702.shtml)

(China.org.cn September 4 2007)