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Another Competitor for Blu-ray and HD-DVD

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the up-and-coming dept.

neutron_p writes "New Medium Enterprises unveils the highly anticipated pre-industrial Versatile MultiLayer Discs, the next generation HD Disc & Drive containing 20GB of storage capacity. VMDs use the current Red Laser technology, so it's easier for DVD factories to switch over. 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."

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  1. Re:Company website?? by Xeo+024 · · Score: 3, Informative

    The company is New Medium Enterprises. Here is their press release for the VMD.

  2. Blu is inherently recordable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    And you can already buy the units from Sony.

    They cost a lot. That's pretty much the only problem with them right now.

    Expect the price to drop when the deman d picks up when the price drops whern the demand picks up... you know the drill.

    Realistically, we (anonymous, but not Sony) are currently aiming at a back-end of 2006 release for the triple-writers. (That is, they will read and write CD/CDRW/DVD+R/DVD-R/Blu at 48x, 40x, 16x, 16x and 2x - bearing in mind that 1x DVD is about 8x CD and it's about the same again for Blu)

    DRM is a reality, however. You clever clever people will find a way around it as quickly as you did CSS, no doubt. And our sales will respond accordingly.