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HD VMD format not dead
SECOND generation HD DVD format HD VMD or versatile multilayer disk, is not dead.
The format was created in Blighty by an outfit called New Medium Enterprises, and gained some acceptance in rebel stronghold France
Of course it is incompatible with Blu-ray which means that if it manages to knock the opposition off the market then there will be millions of Blu-ray machines functioning as expensive door stops.
The main advantages of the technology is that it is cheaper to make, and, according to the Chicago Tribune, New Medium Enterprises plans to sell it to poorer people.
The technology is based on red-laser technology which is found in ordinary DVD machines. It means that the box will be about half the price of a DVD machine.
So far none of the studies have signed up for the technology but since New Medium Enterprises has distributor Michael Jay Solomon as its chairman it is thought they might go for it. ยต
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"Of course it is incompatible with Blu-ray which means that if it manages to knock the opposition off the market then there will be millions of Blu-ray machines functioning as expensive door stops."


LOL, Nik Farell really is a clueless Sony hater...
What is this, the HD-DVD reality distortion field -anything is better then Blu- crap from the web forms?

Chicago Tribune "Sales through Amazon are scheduled to begin in five weeks"
They were already sold at Amazon, but not for long...

http://www.amazon.com/NME-HD-VMD-Player-ML622S/dp/B000VXX6MK/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1205157595&sr=8-7

NME HD VMD Player ML622S

Availability: Currently unavailable. We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock.

Date first available at Amazon.com: September 14, 2007

Some one must have some VMD stock that they hope to dump for more then the 4 cents it was selling for last time I looked.
I suppose their target market is poorer people who happen to have HDTVs? Honestly no one wants this; an end to the format war and a standardisation of a disk type is in the interest of consumers, not prolonging the confusion and fear of adoption. After the original HD-DVD got abandoned do people honestly think enough will take a risk with HD VMD that it would be a threat do Blu-ray?
Have you lot all had irony bypasses? It is fairly clear he is joking.
There's a lot of people out there who watch stuff that's not made by the Hollywood cartel. Since non-BluRay disks and players are cheap to make and the technology is robust its unlikely that it would just disappear, the idea would just turn up somewhere else under a different name.

I don't really understand the aura of smugness people exude when they talk about HDTV. Its not that much of an advance over SD; it probably excites geek types because they've never owned a decent large screen set until they bought a larger flat-screen TV. (Hint...the delta's due to the screen size, not the resolution.)(proper big-screen TVs have always been 1000 line plus....).
What I'd like to see is RAID 0 DVD. Blu-ray 2x is half the speed of regular DVD 18x, and that's after a generous averaging of the CAV of regular DVD If we had a standard for RAID 0 DVD, we'd be able to install x number of cheap DVD drives and still be able to play dual\odd disk sets. That seems like a more natural path to go then to this blue laser stuff, especially since that market is being played like it is; sort of like comparing the Itanic CPU to multi-core. I could see see getting high definition media from the movie house as two discs rather than one and spending maybe $100 bucks for a dual drive RAID DVD player and to hell with the blu-ray gang. Two disc DVD RAID 0 would be about 4 times as fast as blu-ray and much cheaper. It makes more sense for back up too. It takes over 30 hours of transfer time to back up a TB on Blu-ray, where as DVD RAID 0 could do it in under 3 hours. You can use a disc changer if you don't want to deal with all the discs, and you can use that disc changer for HD DVD, if you change to that later. If we don't' have a viable alternative to Blu-ray, the 'association' is going to string us along as long as they can, dealing out the technology like a coke addict on his last gram. Not one of these guys can do better than half the speed of regular DVD when the media is physically capable of running over 5 times the speed of regular DVD? Not even one of them? People need to wake up. If you think following the likes of GW Vagina is gong to lead to prosperity, you've got another thing comin'.

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There is a great market for this product, and, if marketed properly could open the door to a blu-ray rival.

That market is the PC, right now we have computers filled with DVD burners, lets assume there mostly capable of upto just under 9GB, a HD VMD is capable of 15-20 on a side, thats double a standard disk.

For quite a lot less than blu-ray you can have a massive storage device which plays DVDs has much less DRM pumped in to it and has the potential to play back HD films.

If successful in the PC market as backup/dvd/home HD-DVD drives, the studios may decide to tap in to that market, and since the media centre IS the direction that market is heading in they would need to be insain to ignore it.