DVD pioneer joins eWorld advisory board

LOS ANGELES eWorld Companies has announced today that Erick Hansen, founder and ceo of BlueRay Technologies, has joined the company's board of advisors. According to eWorld, Hansen was one of the original pioneers who helped develop DVD and energized the enormous industry and consumer conversion that replaced VHS.

Hansen began his film industry career more than 20 years ago at MGM's Metro Color, a film processing and special effects laboratory. Hansen was the founder and president of HEI, a film distributor, and later went on to become one of the top technologists in the DVD industry, helping to create the first multi-angled DVD.

He founded the first DVD company in the United States in 1995 and the first independent DVD manufacturing facility in the world in 1997, and his involvement in the research and development of the Blu-ray technology dates back to 1999 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He is also considered an expert in various aspects of DVD technology including areas such as digital delivery systems, anti-piracy and anti-theft.