“I’m sure we’ll eventually be able to charge $90 for a Blu-ray player.” “When you mass produce blue lasers in large quantities, hardware costs will absolutely come down,” Mr. NME CEO Michael Jay Solomon sees the advantages as the low cost of producing HD VMD master discs, and he says “We can sell players for $90 and make a profit.” However, New Medium’s price strategy will fail, said Andy Parsons, chairman of the Blu-ray Disc Association, because it relies on a false assumption: Blu-ray technology will always be more expensive. Ī story in the New York Times on 10 March 2008 has NME pushing the format as low cost, because red laser technology is less expensive. The ML777S costs currently (2008-01) USD 200 and includes USB ports (for connection to external storage devices) and a media-card reader. The ML622S will cost approximately $150 USD. The two initial players to be released are the ML622S and the ML777S.
They have also signed a deal with Bollywood production company Eros Group who intended to release 50 Bollywood features on the format. There were 20 US titles available at launch time, including some from Icon Productions, Paramount Pictures, Walt Disney Pictures, New Line Cinema, DreamWorks SKG, Lionsgate and Weinstein Co. At the Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association trade show in September 2007, NME exhibited two players set for release in October 2007. VMD was intended to compete with the blue laser Blu-ray Disc format and had an initial capacity of up to 30GB per side.Īt CeBIT in March 2006, NME demonstrated a prototype VMD player and announced that they were expecting to launch the format in the third quarter of 2006. Versatile Multilayer Disc ( VMD or HD VMD) is a high-capacity red laser optical disc technology designed by New Medium Enterprises, Inc. High definition optical disc format war.High definition Versatile Multilayer Disc (HD VMD).HD DVD: HD DVD-R, HD DVD-RW, HD DVD-RAM.Compact Disc (CD): Red Book, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, 5.1 Music Disc, SACD, Photo CD, CD Video (CDV), Video CD (VCD), SVCD, CD+G, CD-Text, CD-ROM XA, CD-i.DVD: DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-R DL, DVD+R DL, DVD-R DS, DVD+R DS, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, DVD-D, DVD-A, HVD, EcoDisc.And it's not just Bollywood movies – films like Babel have given HD-VMD the rights in certain territories, which means that through internet buying, there should be a fair selection of big films.Standard: 20 GB (4 layer), 5 GB per layer With them now looking at strengthening their UK market, beginning talks with the major supermarket chains, HD-VMD may end up surprising a few people the same way Wii did against the big two video games consoles.
#HD VMD MOVIES MOVIE#
"We decided that the benefit of that crazy level of interactivity – picture-in-picture-in-picture, or maps coming up onscreen when you're trying to watch a movie – was outweighed by that of the low price." The hardware is set to be £199 at most for a bundle box of a player and 5 discs, with discs going for around the same price of a standard DVD. Now they're going to be going straight from VCD to our format, which is the easiest and most inexpensive format for High Definition." Using the same technology of DVD, ramped up to HD quality picture, extreme interactivity was never going to be an option. "Something we saw in India was that they still use VCD, despite DVD being present. HD-VMD may be lesser known as a format, but they already have Bollywood signed up and are in a good position to use that market as a springboard. That's the words of Executive VP at New Media Enterprises, owners of HD-VMD, Alexander Bolker-Hagerty. We don't have that high brand awareness, but we have a niche, there is a place for affordable High Definition. HD-DVD and Blu-Ray have been spending so much time and money battling it out between themselves.
0 kommentar(er)
