Corporate Information: Standardization Organizations (DVD, SmartMediaTM, SD Card, BluetoothTM, etc.)
04 Sep, 2008				DVD6C Announces Royalty Reduction for DVD Decoder and DVD Encoder
17 July, 2008				Consortium Established to Develop and Promote Close Proximity Wireless Technology "TransferJet"
19 Feb, 2008				Toshiba Announces Discontinuation of HD DVD Businesses
25 Jan,2008				DVD6C Announces New Licensing Program
05 Jan,2008				Toshiba's Comment on Announcement from Warner Bros. Entertainment of its Exclusive Support for Blu-ray Disc Format
28 Dec,2007				Toshiba Seeks Court Remedies for Infringement of Essential DVD Patent in Italy
05 Oct,2007				Toshiba and Microsoft Announce Plans to Form Advanced Interactivity Consortium
05 Jul,2007				Toshiba Seeks Court Remedies for Infringement of Essential DVD Patents in Germany
09 Apr,2007				Toshiba Seeks Remedies for Infringement of Essential DVD Patents in U.S. Through Complaints to the ITC and in Federal District Court
08 Jan,2007				Toshiba takes HD DVD to the Next Level With 51GB HD DVD-ROM Disc
21 Nov,2006				Samsung Joins DVD6C in Licensing DVD Patents
11 Sep,2006				Memory-Tech and Toshiba Announce Latest Advance in Single-sided, Three- layer TWIN Format Disc for DVD and HD DVD
31 Mar, 2006				DVD6C Announces Limited-Time Offer for Royalty Reduction for DVD-R Disc License
05 Jan, 2006				Toshiba Announces Industry's First HD DVD Players for the U.S. Market
17 Dec, 2005				Toshiba's Comment on HP's Announcement to Support HD DVD and Join HD DVD Promotion Group
21 Oct, 2005				Toshiba's statement on reports related to Warner Bros.'s announcement on next-generation optical discs
03 Oct, 2005				Toshiba Releases Official Comment on Reports on Paramount
				"HD DVD is REAL!"-The HD DVD Promotion Group Brings HD DVD to CEATEC JAPAN 2005
				Toshiba Exhibits HD DVD Player at CEATEC JAPAN 2005
27 Sep, 2005				Toshiba's Statement on Intel and Microsoft's Announcement to Support HD DVD
				Managing Member Companies of HD DVD Promotion Group Welcome Intel and Microsoft as Newest Members of the Group
				Toshiba First in World to Develop Notebook PC with HD DVD-ROM Drive
15 Apr, 2005				SANYO and Sharp join DVD6C In Licensing DVD Patents
01 Mar, 2005				DVD6C Announces Changes to DVD Licensing Program
07 Jan, 2005				HD DVD HARDWARE AND MOVIE TITLES UNVEILED AT THE 2005 INTERNATIONAL CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW (CES)
07 Dec, 2004				Memory-Tech and Toshiba Unveil Dual-Format Disc That Supports Playback of both HD DVD and DVD
29 Nov, 2004				Toshiba Announces the Next-Generation DVD Format Endorsement by Major Hollywood Studios
27 Sep, 2004				New HD DVD Promotion Group to Expedite Commercialization of HD DVD Hardware and Software
02 Aug, 2004				International Electrotechnical Commission Forms Working Group To Set Industrial Standard For Micro Fuel Cells
26 Jul, 2004				Toshiba, NEC and Memory-Tech to Hold Three-day HD DVD Showcase to Spotlight Progress in Next Generation DVD standard
				Memory-Tech and Toshiba to Provide Industry with Technical Information on HD DVD Manufacturing
17 Mar, 2004				Toshiba Readies Diverse, Cutting-Edge Mobile Technologies for CeBIT 2004
07 Jan, 2004				Toshiba's Next-Generation High-Definition DVD Player Prototype Secures Backward Compatibility with Current DVD discs
09 May, 2003				Toshiba's New Dual-layer, Single-sided, Blue-Laser Rewritable Optical Disk Needs Only Current Production Facilitiesm
				DVD Recordable Special Interest Group Welcomes Microsoft's Announcement of Support for all Major DVD Recordable Formats Standardized by the DVD Forum
24 Apr, 2003				DVD Recordable Special Interest Group Will Exhibit at WinHEC2003
09 Dec, 2002				HDMI FOUNDERS HITACHI, MATSUSHITA (PANASONIC), PHILIPS, SILICON IMAGE, SONY, THOMSON AND TOSHIBA RELEASE FINAL HDMI 1.0 SPECIFICATION AMID BROAD INDUSTRY SUPPORT
19 Nov, 2002				DVD6C to License Recordable DVD Licenses
29 Aug, 2002				Toshiba and NEC Jointly Propose Next Generation, High Capacity, Blue-Laser DVD Format
25 Jul, 2002				HITACHI, INGENTIX, MATSUSHITA, SANDISK AND TOSHIBA DEVELOP NEW MOBILE COMMERCE SECURITY STANDARD FOR FLASH MEMORY CARDS
28 Jun, 2002				HDMI FOUNDERS HITACHI, MATSUSHITA (PANASONIC), PHILIPS, SILICON IMAGE, SONY, THOMSON AND TOSHIBA COMPLETE v 0.9 HIGH DEFINITION MULTIMEDIA INTERFACE DRAFT SPECIFICATION
20 Jun, 2002				IBM Joins DVD6C In Licensing DVD Patents
16 Apr, 2002				HITACHI, MATSUSHITA, PHILIPS, SILICON IMAGE, SONY, THOMSON AND TOSHIBA FORM WORKING GROUP TO DEFINE DIGITAL CONNECTIVITY SPECIFICATION FOR AUDIO/VIDEO PRODUCTS
10 Apr, 2001				Five Japanese Companies Proposal Wins Industry Acceptance for MPEG-4 Realtime Transport Protocol Standardization
14 Apr, 2000				DVD Originators Establish DVD Format/Logo Licensing Corporation
06 Jan, 2000				MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC, SANDISK AND TOSHIBA TO FORM SD ASSOCIATION TO PROMOTE NEXT GENERATION SD MEMORY CARD
11 Jun, 1999				DVD Patent Licensing Program Announced by Six Companies
03 Jun, 1999				Electronics Consortium Backs New Miniature Plastic Fiber Interface
28 Jul, 1998				DVD Forum Holds U.S. DVD Conference in San Francisco in October
29 May, 1998				DVD Forum Steering Committee Welcomes Seven New Companies
25 Dec, 1997				DVD-RAM Verification Services Start
05 Dec, 1997				DVD Forum Holds First General Meeting
20 Oct, 1997				Six Companies Announce Joint DVD Patent Licensing Program
26 Sep, 1997				DVD Forum Announces DVD-R Version 1.0
18 Aug, 1997				DVD Forum Proposes DVD-RAM Format Version 1.0 to the International Standardization Organization
23 Jun, 1997				COMPUTER MAKERS UNVEIL STANDARDS for MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICES
25 Apr, 1997				DVD Consortium to be transformed into DVD Forum
14 Apr, 1997				DVD Forum Announces DVD-RAM and DVD-R Formats
11 Apr, 1997				DVD Forum Announces DVD Interim Format/Logo licensing
08 Dec, 1995				DVD Format Unification