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HD VMD Shows Up Late For the Format War

Posted by kdawson on from the other-guys-will-kill-each-other-off-see dept.

Fishead writes "As the fight heats up between HD DVD and Blu-ray, and as consumers seem to care less and less, a new contender has entered the fray. Next month, New Medium Enterprises will be selling a 1080p player through Amazon and stores such as Radio Shack and Costco for around $150 — half what the cheapest HD DVD player costs, and a quarter the cost of a low-end Blu-ray. The difference this new HD VMD (Versatile Multilayer Disc) format brings is that the discs are created with the same (cheap) red laser as DVDs. From the article: 'HD VMD discs, which hold up to 30GB on a single side, are encoded with a maximum bit rate of 40 megabits per second... between HD DVD's 36 Mpbs and Blu-ray's 48 Mbps. The format uses MPEG-2 and VC1 video formats to encode at 1080p resolution for the time being, and will possibly move to the H.264 format in the future.'"

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  1. MS Vapor, Blu-Ray already won by gig · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is just a cheaper clone of HD DVD, it still has all the same problems that make it very unattractive to content creators. For example, a per disc license fee paid to Microsoft.

    Blu-Ray is way ahead of HD DVD, orders of magnitude, right now. Microsoft is the only one still truly behind HD DVD.

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  3. Re:Waste of time by seanseansean · · Score: 0, Troll

    Learn to proof read you fucking idiot.