HD VMD Vs Blu-ray

[MinusTheBear]

http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_HD_VMD_A_Format_That_Tries_To_Find_Its_Niche_14965.html

 

[mouettus]

No HD-audio. Great... now we're backtracking.

It's nice too see something else coming out though. Keep 'em coming!

 

[stratman]

I've read several articles on this "format" over the last few months, it's a dead horse. They plan to market from religious broadcasters, hispanic networks, China to limited release film indies. It's utter nonsense.

 

[Jack Hammer]

I've read several articles on this "format" over the last few months, it's a dead horse. They plan to market from religious broadcasters, hispanic networks, China to limited release film indies. It's utter nonsense.

That doesn't necessarily mean they won't get anywhere with it. Good marketing can work miracles.

Assuming (yeah, I know) that the technology works as claimed and is dependable it may offer other areas of use, such as paving the road for BD to potentially be an up to 250gb disc.

Jack

 

[stratman]

That doesn't necessarily mean they won't get anywhere with it. Good marketing can work miracles.

Assuming (yeah, I know) that the technology works as claimed and is dependable it may offer other areas of use, such as paving the road for BD to potentially be an up to 250gb disc.

Jack

You said it: "assuming," so far it's been smoke and mirrors, good marketing will work miracles if it's focused properly, these guys are all over the place, they state they won't come after BR (smart), but their attempts at wooing any real money so far hasn't panned out, no big takers (investors.) This company has been blowing smoke now for the best part of a year and they've become sort of a joke amongst CE journalists.

 

[satish536]

In other countries many average households dont have full fledged home theaters or have HTIBs. In these kind of start up systems its very subjective whether you can tell the difference between High def audio and standard DD, DTS. An average joe would be happy with DTS or DD track i think.

HD-VMD might not be all dead considering it still has 1080P video which would satisfy lot of the households as i believe more average people have big screen hi def tv's than HT's(audio).
The fact that it is hd-vmd are cheaper to manufacture to make and provides hi def video, the audio trade off might not be that big for the average consumer.

 

[stratman]

In other countries many average households dont have full fledged home theaters or have HTIBs. In these kind of start up systems its very subjective whether you can tell the difference between High def audio and standard DD, DTS. An average joe would be happy with DTS or DD track i think.

HD-VMD might not be all dead considering it still has 1080P video which would satisfy lot of the households as i believe more average people have big screen hi def tv's than HT's(audio).
The fact that it is hd-vmd are cheaper to manufacture to make and provides hi def video, the audio trade off might not be that big for the average consumer.

The problem is: there is no content support for this format. We just stepped off a "war" that undoubtedly has left scars in the CE landscape, with one major player losing hundreds of millions of dollars (perhaps a billion or two), consumer confusion at an all time high, and to add injury to insult a lagging world economic market, an expensive format (Blu-ray) that's still very much a niche commodity, trying it's hardest to recoup the billions spent by all parties involved in R&D. Unless the HD VMD group can perform miracles or have more funds than Sony and company, I'll go out on a limb and say it's dead for all practical purposes.

 

[dobyblue]

Assuming (yeah, I know) that the technology works as claimed and is dependable it may offer other areas of use, such as paving the road for BD to potentially be an up to 250gb disc.

Jack

BD has already paved the road for themselves to get up to a 335GB disc.

TDK has already tested a 33.5GB/layer disc and Ritek has stated they should be able to do a 10-layer disc.

TDK has currently only tested a 6 layer disc, at 33.5GB/layer, resulting in a 200GB disc.

BD has also suggested they're capable of 288 Mbps. With 335GB and 288 Mbps you're getting pretty close to a lossless compression of 1080p24.