A Video Business report said the DVD Forum has reached an agreement for download-to-burn DVDs, clearing the last technical hurdle for services to reach consumers by next year.

Time Warner Chief Executive Richard Parsons spoke last week at the Reuters Media Summit about Warner Bros.’s plans to launch such services at kiosks in Wal-Mart. Consumers would be able to order a movie at these kiosks, which download movies and transfer them to DVDs while you wait.

Members of the forum, an international association of hardware makers, software companies and content providers, agreed at a Nov. 29 meeting to sanction a new kind of recordable disk that will take movies encrypted with CSS, a system employed in existing DVDs, according to Video Business. The CSS system was originally designed not to work with existing recordable disks in order to thwart piracy.

The full jargon-laden text from the forum’s activities can be found here.
Paidcontent.org coverage is here.

(Photo: Reuters / Workers of Peru’s intellectual property protection agency Indecopi destroy some illegally copied CD’s and DVD’s with a steamroller in Lima April 24, 2006.)