Beijing Golden Yuxing Electronic Technology Co., Ltd will launch the China DVD Union with other Chinese DVD-player manufacturers to develop China-patented DVD products to get the upper hand over overseas rivals, its president Zhu Weisha announced yesterday.

　　Yuxing unveiled two new DVD-player models with five China-patented technologies yesterday and signed a deal with leading home appliance chain Beijing Guomei Electric Appliance Co. Ltd. to supply 100,000 DVD players.

　　Prices of the two models range from 980 yuan (US) to 1,398 yuan.

　　Local market analysts expect the DVD union to help the domestic DVD-player industry, which has been cornered by foreign manufacturers.

　　Early last year, asgroupsof six foreign electronics giants, known as the "6C" group, started to demand royalties from China's DVD-player manufacturers for using coresgroupstechnologies in their products.

　　Negotiations on the royalty amounts are still in progress, but the final costs could average US for each player sold, market analysts said.

　　Many domestic makers complain that high royalty fees will offset their price advantage at home and abroad.

　　The 6Csgroupsincludes Hitachi Ltd., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Time Warner Inc., Toshiba Corp. and Victor Company of Japan Ltd.