X-bit labs

Started by: issac | Date 02/29/08

Comments: 16 | Last Comment:  03/04/08

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1. who wants another hd format war again! the major studios will probably wont back up hd vmd cause of what happened in the last hd format war, why would they want to lose money on another format that has chosen a wrong time to come out when blu-ray already has all the studios backing them up.

plus nobody sane enough will ever invest into something else than DB after Toshiba retired its Hd-DVD from the market. unless it's really that compatible with the current DVD specifications and we don't need to buy new hardware to play this medium.

2. What are the specs of this? Can it play 7.1 audio channels? What's the bit rate of video?
It sounds like a third party candidate...even HD-DVD is 20 times what HD-VMD is. Why are they bothering? They're like a contestant on American Idol with three "No"s at the first round.

3. NME is crazy. No one's gonna back this thing because no one wants another goddamned format war!

4. It'll never take off. The last thing anyone wants is yet ANOTHER format war. Just waiting for blu ray recorders and media to come down in price a bit and I'm jumping on the bandwagon!


Binny.

5. Id love to see this format enter the market.
Blu-Ray just totally sucks from top to bottom... why would I want to sell my grandmother just to have Blu-Ray media? Gimme a break... HD DVD was way superior, but we know... companies & greed -.-

HD-DVD is suck from the 1st day! Educate urself and know how BluRay is superior b4 bull shiting here!

Oh yeah, because ethernet is standard on Blu-Ray, oh no wait it's not it's only standard on HD-DVD, but Blu-Ray has interactive features, oh no, wait that's only with the 1.1 update and HD-DVD had those features all the time. Blu-Ray was a finished standard and you don't need to update your player to play new movies, oh wait that was only true of HD-DVD again. Well then Blu-Ray was cheaper to make, oh no wait advantage to HD-DVD again for both disks and players. Oh well Blu-Ray could store more data, ok that's one advantage.

Yeah Blu-Ray was just sooo much better. I bet your one of the few people who still think George Bush is a smart, competent leader too.

\Well, HDVD has interactive features, but who dares need these gimmicks?
Well, HDVD player was cheaper to make, but not HDVD software!
Well, HDVD can store less data, that's so called "next generation"! Oh no! wait that's only with the triple layer update which marks all current HDVD player rubbish. but BluRay had those features all the time.

HDVD was just sooo much better. I bet your one of the few people who still think Hilter is a genius too!

6. I don't like multi-layer discs. I think this is causing too much problem.

7. Clearly every more than two layers compact disk technology turned out to be a bluff. Skip over.

8. "VMD provides the ability to place up to 20 layers on a single disc with no quality loss in the content stored."

Yeah right, and I am Batman...

9. I guess folks and VMD just missed the whole HDDVD vs BD war. Good for them, because if they didn't miss it, they would know that it's not about the format, superiority or affordablity, but rather it's about the how much greens were paid to big Movie Studious to give them the support to win. These nuckleheads really need help. VMD might work in Chineese black markets, but it will never see the light of day in US or EU.

10. I searched and could not find a single movie for it.

What a joke.

I am pretty sure this is not going anywhere.

11. what we all need is another format to come
and cause another head ache for the customers lets not prolong this stupid war and just move on into the hd future and quit this crap because if the hd vmd comes in to the picture that means the people will wait for this war to end and may cost movie studios a bunch of money so why not go out there and demand that this crap stops so we the customers can enjoy the hd ages not another 1-2 years of crap that hd vmd would bring to are homes.so I would leave you with this people for next couple of years say no to hd format war
say no to hdvmd and say yes to blu ray and say yes to the future and we all hope that with the death of hddvd this format war will be over for 5-6 years at the least. so say no to hd vmd and all of the studios please support blu ray.

12. Sometimes called Mini-BluRay(mini-BD), was the 1st format in the industry to provide Full HD video in a traditional DVD disc. This format is widely supported by leading manufacturers (e.g. Sony/Panasonic/Canon Camcoder)

Given the very similar file format structure employed by Bluray and AVC-HD, BluRay to AVC-HD transcode is very easy. The Chinese had already discover this as an alternative route for private BluRay illegally. Illegal dump of AVC-HD directly from BluRay disc are now selling heat in mainland China!

Notice that all BluRay players and PS3 are able to playback AVC-HD encoded DVD, which makes such VMD virtually obselate!

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