Super Video CD Technology. High-Quality Video CD (HQ-VCD), developed by the Video CD Consortium (consisting of Philips, Sony, Matsushita and JVC — creators of the original Video CD specification) was a relatively late entry. The Chinese Ministry of Information and the Video CD Consortium agreed to join forces, incorporating the features of HQ-VCD under a unified SVCD format. But by the time the SVCD specification was ready in July 1998, CVD had already been adopted by major manufacturers and had quickly established a significant installed base of about 600,000 players. This prompted the Chinese government to force a compromise between the competing standards
New York in the '70s to iconic places such as Chelsea Hotel, CBGB, The Kitchen#History etc. All tracks written and composed by Luke Haines except for track 9 by John Moore. New York in the '70s New York in the '70s is a concept album by British alternative rock artist Luke Haines. The music style is influenced by new wave and protopunk bands from the New York scene mostly by Suicide (band). Into his song "Cerne Abbas Man", he refers Rock and Roll Animals in the sentence "The birds were in my last LP". The concept is less of a narrative story and more of