Hd-vmd

[Bmoreshaun]

Saw this about a week or so ago, and I was wondering everyone elses take on this new technology...link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136977-c,hometheatersystems/article.html It's about the same cost as DVD's(players and disks) but offers 1080p Blu Ray/HD DVD quality(all except uncompressed sound)... I don't know how many of you feel, but I plan on finding one of these burners for my mac as soon as they hit the streets...btw...alot of people/companys have agreed to use this tech(some of the titles I found:)

Hostage
We Were Soldiers
Apocalypto
Lucky Number Slevin
Valiant
Saw II
Saw III
Lord of War
Fireplace & Aquarium
The Ark
Help I'm A Fish
El Cid
Mid Summer Dream
Passion of The Christ
Angeles Ashes
Babel
16 Blocks
Set up
Hoodwinked
Oliver Twist
Princesse
La Planete Blanche
Pulp Fiction
Sahara
Demande A La Poussiere
Gosford Park
The Descent
Miss Potter
The Queen
Butterfly Effect 1
Butterfly Effect 2
Hitcher
Black Sheep
Lord of the Rings
Diario De Um Novo Mundo
Inside Out
Avion
Welcome to LazyTown
Dr. Rottenstein
Hero for a Day
Defeated
Rottenbeard
Cry Dinosaur
Secret Agent Zero
Sleepless in LazyTown
Happy Brush Day
Pixelspix
LazyTown’s New Super Hero
Sports Day
Crystal Caper
Lazy Scouts
My Treehouse
Swiped Sweets
Sportafake
The Laziest Town
Soccer Sucker
Dear Diary
Miss Roberta
Sports Candy Festival
Remote Control
Sportacus Who?
Zap it
Records Day
Ziggy’s Alien
Play Day
Prince Stingy
Robbie’s Greatest Misses
Dancing Duel
LazyTown’s Greatest Hits
Sportacus on the Move!
LazyTown’s Surprise Santa
Sailor et lula
Scorpion
Le caïman
Spy kids
Scarie movie 2
Les chansons d'amour
Khakar Khakar
Alaipayuthey
Pammal K Sambantham
Panchathanthiram
Ghilli
Boys
Kandukondain Kandukondain
Water
Bheja Fry
Bridge to Tarabitha
Hanuman
Malamal Weekly
Constant Gardner
Jo Jeeta Wohli Sikander
Page 3
Parzania
Iqbal
China Town
Sholay
Andaz Apana Apna
Hum Aapke Hai Kaun
Padosan
Maine Pyaar Kiya
Kashmir Ki Kali
Pyaasa
Sapoot
International only
Khanna & Iyer
Inquilab
Namak Haram
Dil Ek Mandir

[Bmoreshaun]

just an after thought...although I see this being a more viable technology for the masses, having a blu ray burner makes backup and archiveing alot more simple and now with the new REDs comming, it makes all the more sense to have a blu ray burner...hmmmmm....

[Craig W. Bickerstaff]

Gosh darn it people it's Blu-ray! not blue ray!
So yeah I back Blu-ray Disc.

[Bmoreshaun]

Gosh darn it people it's Blu-ray! not blue ray!
So yeah I back Blu-ray Disc.
My Bad....your sooo right, I knew it didn't feel right when I typed it...lol...Blu Ray...lol

[Anders Holck]

Yeah, Blu-Ray and HD DVD it is.

From NME's white papers their current offering is a maximum of 4 layers of 5 GB. Thats only 20 GB. They state that future capacity using 10 layers would enable 50 GB capacity. If they successfully replicate that on a large scale will be interesting.

Their site fails to mention anything related to authoring specs and interactive specs, other than their own upcoming authoring package which only supports standard DVD menus and only Mpeg-2 encoding, and no 24p support....

The VMD disc is basically a DVD9 with intermediate layers. I wouldn't expect any burners other than norman DVD DL burners....

The current downside to their tech:
Normal DVD lines are pretty cheap to convert into HD DVD lines, and the replication price, and turnaround time per disc should soon be close to DVD prices at large volumes, and HD DVD players should hit $199 this quarter.

[Gavin Greenwalt]

Xbox Live.

Although I'm hoping they upgrade to 1080p and higher bitrates soon. If I can stream an HD movie in less than 5 minutes they can up the bitrates by at least 2x.