subject: Appliance Industry News Fast Assessment Week (may 4 -5 10 Months) - Appliances, Air Conditioning, [print this page] Proposed energy conservation Proposed energy conservation
Air conditioning
Price reduction
News: Energy-saving air-conditioning and energy efficiency ratio lower than normal air, generally to the price of 700 yuan to 1,000 yuan. Under normal use, after 8 years in electricity savings out of money to arrive on that amount. Consumer Guidance Department in the CASE person therefore recommends that enterprises should minimize the energy-saving air-conditioning and general air of the price difference, to encourage consumers to buy energy-saving air-conditioning to save energy for the country.
Express Comment: As the air conditioning and heating technology barriers, even energy-saving air-conditioning, and only when the cooling energy to play the role of air-conditioning businesses can not understand this principle. Obviously, with 8 years to save money, energy-saving air-conditioning has become a "gimmick", or become a means of corporate profit. However, it entirely to blame business, their goal is profit, so it is certainly not in the consumer association of the company's identity. It is said that in some European countries, the government on the use of energy saving products, consumer subsidies for certain, this approach is feasible in reality?
China
DVD
Industry stand a chance
News: According to the U.S.
MPEG
Patent Technology Management Corporation (abbreviation MPEGLA) and Chinese enterprises proxy DVD??? China Electronics
Sound
Industry Association and China
Electrical
Import and Export Chamber of Commerce signed the "MPEG-2 Patent Joint License" memorandum of understanding to July 1, 2005 to implement the starting point, China will have an annual MPEGLA receives 2.5 dollars per DVD
Royalty
And produced in China before the date of this DVD, MPEGLA also will be "back pay." According to incomplete statistics, at present, the production of a DVD to each pay royalties exceeded 20 dollars a year
DVD patent fee
Pay nearly 20 billion dollars. The MPEGLA CEO Lawrence? Horn said, the unit of MPEG-4,
H.264
, DVB-T and other patent portfolio also will begin negotiations with the Chinese charges, which cover the breadth of patent portfolio, from
Digital TV
, Audio and video transmission, as well as future 3G communications, no one missing.
Quick comment: China's DVD industry be completely gone. "Constant pressure on the patent fee, each DVD will have 30 yuan of profits be lucky." A company vice president of frustration. It is reported that since 2002, the patent fees to the DVD collection agency business from the original one into 37, the patent fee 5 dollars each from the original also risen today over 20 U.S. dollars. Moreover, the "more serious is that in the end do not know how many Chinese companies are waiting for royalties to pay."
