With HD DVD and Blu-ray prices on the decline, HD VMD will face a serious uphill fight. It’s doubtful that the company will be able to garner support from most major studios, given their already significant investments in the other HD formats. Most of the other movies are either lesser-known independents, older films or Bollywood features from India. Launch titles include: Hostage, Apocalypto, Pulp Fiction, Babel, Saw II and Saw III. NME has only scored distribution rights to a a handful of movies that I’ve ever heard of. The most obvious downside to the budding format is the current lack of available content. Even the least expensive HD VMD players offer HDMI and component outputs, and will scale old-school DVDs up to 1080p over the HDMI connection. Audio support includes Dolby Digital and DTS, but none of the more advanced audio formats you might find on Blu-Ray and HD DVD players. As an added bonus, HD VMD is region free, so you don’t have to worry about where you bought your discs. The players support video compressed in MPEG- 2, MPEG-1, VC-1, H-264(AVC) formats. At a physical level, VMD is identical to DVD, but with the possibility of. VMD was intended to compete with the blue-laser Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD formats and had an initial capacity of up to 30GB per side. The manufacturer claims the format supports full 1080i and 1080p resolutions, as well as bit rates up to 40 Mbps (about half way between the two competing HD formats). Versatile Multilayer Disc ( VMD or HD VMD) was a high-capacity red-laser optical disc technology designed by New Medium Enterprises, Inc. First generation VMD will store up to 24GB, but there are already plans in the works to expand this capacity further using more layers, and potentially thinner wavelength blue lasers as prices come down. VMD’s cost advantage comes from the fact that discs and players can be produced using much of the already existing infrastructure that’s set up to produce standard DVDs. New Medium Enterprises’ (NME) proprietary HD VMD (Versatile Multilayer Disc) format uses standard red lasers, but crams in 4 layers per disc to handle the data needs of full high-definition content. Just this week, the first HD VMD players have begun to show up on Amazon, with prices starting at just $189. Now a little upstart disc format known as HD VMD has started to ship their very first players for less than half ( correction: now just a little bit less than) the price of the cheapest standalone Blu-Ray and HD DVD machines. is a highly appreciated player in the livestock segment.Read More. By now, we’ve all heard plenty about Blu-Ray, HD DVD and the so-called HD “format wars”. n.v./s.a (location in Flanders, Belgium, revenue.
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