The ongoing war between Blu-ray and HD DVD high-definition video formats is heating up as appropriate players become more affordable. While the end of the battle is still far ahead, there is a small company from London, England, which plans to offer truly affordable high-definition format called HD VMD already this fall.
New Medium Enterprises unveiled its first HD VMD (Versatile Multilayer Disc) player at IFA trade-show in Berlin along with the short list of movies to be available for the player this fall. The company, which positions its standard as “The New Definition of High Definition” promises affordable prices and widespread availability, but remains tight-lipped over the movies portfolio it is able to release.
NME’s ML622S player that is capable of DVD and HD VMD playback has recommended retail price of €179 ($243) and offers video playback encoded using MPEG-2/MPEG-2 HD, VC-1 or H.264 codecs in up to 1080p (1920x1200, progressive scan) resolution with up to 45Mb/s bitrate along with Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, DTS audio.
The London-based startup launches its HD VMD technology worldwide in October or November with a competitive player and content bundle box which will include 5 new HD VMD titles for Australia, France, Iceland, India, Poland and Scandinavia. The company says that HD VMD’s “growing list of film content” includes “blockbuster films from Hollywood, Bollywood and International titles worldwide” including 16 Blocks, Apocalypto, Passion of the Christ, Lord of War, Lucky Number Slevin, plus the award winning children’s series, Lazy Town.
HD VMD technology is based on multi-layer DVD discs and red laser head. Each additional layer adds approximately up to 5 GB of memory over a standard DVD disc. VMD provides the ability to place up to 20 layers on a single disc with no quality loss in the content stored. This means capacity to record 100 GB or more without major changes to DVD players, but the disc technology requires new manufacturing process and production lines. Currently the company can produce up to 30GB discs. HD VMD is not supported by any major movie studios, like Blu-ray or HD DVD.
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A little too late I think at this point.
[Posted by: RW | Date: 09/01/07 09:52:02 AM]
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Wao. It's realy 1080p term here is 1900 x 1200 or typo ?
[Posted by: Hok | Date: 09/01/07 07:03:56 PM]
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This is gayer than AIDS.
[Posted by: joefriday | Date: 09/02/07 12:38:04 AM]
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Wow you link the Human Immunodeficiency Virus as being something that is intrinsically homosexual. You are the biggest fucking idiot I have seen in some time. Straight people get AIDS too you hateful turd, just look at Africa where millions of people have this horrendous disease. You can not expect me to believe for an instant that each one of those people infected is gay or bisexual. I almost wish there is a hell so that despicable people like you can be tortured for all eternity.
[Posted by: Lion of Zion | Date: 09/04/07 11:30:26 PM]
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not another god damn format!! Blu-Ray is the only HD format as far as i'm concerned. It's got all the numbers on it's side and it's only a matter of time till the price drops. PICK UR FORMAT PPL!!
[Posted by: WeZz | Date: 09/02/07 05:30:44 AM]
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Holy bullshit.
It's pricey and no one's gonna jump to this deprecated technology.
Consumers really need something better than BluRay and HD DVD. At the time when usual DVD discs were introduced the average HDD volume was around 20GB. BluRay and HD DVD just doesn't justify themselves because nowadays we need capacities around 250GB - and that is per one layer only.
[Posted by: birdie | Date: 09/02/07 07:33:55 AM]
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This won't live to see the light of day. Capacity is waaaaaay too low.
[Posted by: Moe Szyslak | Date: 09/05/07 07:24:35 AM]
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fuck this bullshit in the ass righnow!
[Posted by: 31415 | Date: 09/05/07 03:25:53 PM]
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This is going to own bluray
[Posted by: Fuck you black people | Date: 09/12/07 10:06:48 AM]
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