HD VMD article

[blu-rayfan101]

This wont last long the most it could do is steal hd dvd sales then drag hd dvd down with them.

[JadedRaverLA]

Originally Posted by blu-rayfan101

This wont last long the most it could do is steal hd dvd sales then drag hd dvd down with them.

Exactly. Which is why not only should we not fear the new format... we should encourage it. Given that HD DVD has always preached that studio and CE support doesn't matter -- it's just player price (not disc price mind you). Let's get another format with no chance of winning to beat them on price... and then we can just sit back and laugh.

[Chris Beveridge]

Moved to off-topic as it had nothing to do with Blu-ray movies, the section it was posted in.

[Chris Gerhard]

If great foreign titles are released on this format, I am probably going to go ahead and pick it up. I can't imagine major Hollywood films are released, but who knows now what software support it will have. Whatever it does, it can't do much worse than HD DVD has done and HD DVD is still hanging around.

Chris

[navychop]

Oh yes, it can do much worse than HD DVD. But- good luck finding one to buy.

Anyway- I don't believe the speed rating. Considering it's a red laser, which drastically limits the recording density, and the fact it's using basically the same discs as everyone else- I just don't see those transfer speeds, not sustained. The discs cannot spin ever faster. IIRC, there was an early CD burner that was taken off the market, or maybe never made it to market, because it spun the disc so fast as to create a hazard. These things have been spun to destruction, and you don't want a high speed piece of disc ripping out your plastic door. It will "make your day." You'd be telling that story for a long time.

I haven't done the math, but with the disc spinning no faster, or only slightly faster, than today's discs, and the lower density caused by the use of red wavelengths, I don't see it picking up and moving data at 40 Mbps. If they could, then HD DVD would be doing it.

[Chris Gerhard]

Originally Posted by HK-48

That article was biased against HD DEAD and Blu-Ray. It said that HD VMD would have 40mbps or whatever, which was in spitting distance of Blu-Ray's 48, Than it said HD VMD's 40mbps was quite a bit more than HD DVD's 36mbps. How is 8 within spitting distance and 4 is quite a bit more?

HD DVD is 30.4 Mbps for audio/video, so 40 Mbps is closer to Blu-ray's 48 for audio/video than HD DVD. I don't know whether HD VMD actually has 40 Mbps available for audio/video, but I assume that is the claim being made.

Chris

[Mulder]

Originally Posted by WickyWoo

Not a single major studio is releasing on it.

It's completely dead in the water. All the "name" releases are tied to small overseas distributors that can't be sold here

Aren't New Line releasing on this? According to their content library they have Butterfly effect AND Lord of the Rings.

http://www.nmeinc.com/

[lch]

the movie rights of those show don't come from studio in the states.
they import from oversea distributor.
just like we can buy universal titles blu-ray from overseas.

[aristotles]

How are we supposed to worry about something that has not announced shipping dates and offer vague details on how they could get high yields for their multi-layer discs. It sounds like a hack and vapourware to me.