I hear this is the offical player of India. I like the price on the player and the movies. Some mainstream studio films currently on VMD:(all 1080p and cost $17.50 or less) (I wonder if the load times are quicker using the red laser over the blue?) It sales for $249 and comes with 5 bollywood/indi movies. (theoretically it can do 200GB with 20 layers) It only supports 5.1 DTS, Dolby Digital, AC3, THX, linear PCM and Dolby Digital Plus.ĭisc sizes are 20-40-50GB sizes. It however doesn't support DTS HD or Dolby Tru HD. It supports MPEG-2, MPEG-1, VC-1, WMV9 and H-264(AVC) 40 Mbit/s which is more then HD DVD (36) and just under Blu-Ray(48). The DVD forum chose the quick and easy approach which isn't exactly wrong, but I think it was a bit lazy. And now studio support is fading fast for HDDVD.Īt the end of the day, Sony with the BD association had the hindsight to create a new technology, which has been slowly getting up to speed with features. The anticipated player price for the end user will be approximately 250 USD, a price that NME believes will encourage mass acceptance of VMD technology. Even $99 players from Toshiba failed to make an impact. In particular VMD players are inherently backward compatible with DVDs and CDs that will enable viewing and listening of HD discs as well as current DVDs and CDs on VMD players. Blu-Ray discs cost the same if not LESS than HD-DVD to produce now so thats gone. All the things HD-DVD had in its favour have gone now. And the other "Extra" features that HD-DVD has are coming to Blu-ray too so it makes it mute. At the moment Blu-Ray movies take a 3 way split on MPEG 2, AVC and VC-1 with most if not all studios supporting only AVC/VC-1 now. Thats actually a scary thing, and if Blu-Ray does pull through, could be a real pain in the ass for us consumers, thats one of the reasons movie studios like Blu-Ray, and one of the reasons why some (clever) folks prefer HD-DVD.Īt the end of the day, Blu-Ray DID start out a bit shady with the software codec support etc, but its only software, it can be improved, and already is. And the last thing (Which we havent seen much of yet) is its copy protection BD+. That in itself is a god send for me! also its data surface is alot closer to the "front" of the disc so it can effectively hold more layers (0.1mm as opposed to 0.5 on HDDVD). It uses different polymers and dyes to effectively increase the capacity it can handle and it also has a tougher surface, its ALOT harder to scratch a Blu-Ray disc. You can make a HD-DVD disc with the same fabrication plant that makes DVD, but you can't do that with Blu-Ray as it uses a completely new tech. Hence why they origianlly had an upper hand in price. two parties agree to the following: HD PLAYER R&D COLLABORATION To form a. The blue laser is narrower than red hence they can fit more data on a disc with the same tech as DVD, thats all HD-DVD is. of a disc player which will incorporate/ combine EVD and VMD technologies. The disc uses completely new technology PHYSICALLY whereas HD-DVD is just a bastardised DVD with Blue laser tech.
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