Tuesday, November 16, 2004
The Versatile MultiLayer Disc - More Competition?
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "HARDWARE" @ 07:00 AM
"New Medium Enterprises Inc. announced today the public unveiling of the highly anticipated pre-industrial VMD (Versatile MulitLayer Disc), the next generation HD Disc & Drive containing 20GB of storage capacity on the current Red Laser technology platforms. The HD films will be shown in genuine HD formats (MPEG-2, 1080i and 1080p). The company is set for launching production and sales of 15 GB, 20 GB, 25 GB and 30 GB Discs & Drives by Fall 2005. The drives will be inherently backward compatible with the existing pre-recorded and recordable DVD and CD formats."
In 2006, the company will start manufacturing cost-effective 50 GB VMD's on Red Laser, for HDTV and Digital Cinema. So now the competition is up to four players? Blu-Ray (looking like it is in the lead), HDDVD, Pioneer's electron-beam Optical Disks and now the VMD. This seems like the flash memory wars all over again. Ok, I am going home tonight and making up a new format (will leak specs soon). :)
In 2006, the company will start manufacturing cost-effective 50 GB VMD's on Red Laser, for HDTV and Digital Cinema. So now the competition is up to four players? Blu-Ray (looking like it is in the lead), HDDVD, Pioneer's electron-beam Optical Disks and now the VMD. This seems like the flash memory wars all over again. Ok, I am going home tonight and making up a new format (will leak specs soon). :)
