| shams said: http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070908/tc_pcworld/136977 - HD-VMD hold 30Gig (on a single side) - maximum bit rate is 40Mps (about halfway between BluRay & HDDVD) - uses red lasers - discs as cheap to make as existing DVDs (maybe same burn tech??) - players will launch for $149US "Instead of the blue-laser technology embraced by the Blu-ray and HD DVD camps, the HD VMD format uses the red-laser technology already used to create DVDs, and as a result, keeps the cost of manufacturing discs and drives low, says Eugene Levich, director and chief technology officer of New Medium Enterprises. He said that manufacturing a Blu-ray drive costs ten times as much as manufacturing a DVD or HD VMD drive, because the latter two are essentially the same drive but with different firmware." LOL... :)
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Exactly.. LOL is the correct term for this blurb. In many research labs, multilayer DVD discs have already been produced and tested for years.. and guess what, dual layer discs is all that we have, so there must be a reason for it.
I particularly like the "manufacturing a Blu-ray drive costs ten times as much as manufacturing a DVD or HD VMD drive" bit. If you think that constructing a pickup system that can reliably read 10 layers costs less than any existing pickup system (DVD, HD-DVD,-Blu-ray, pick your choice, all costing about $20 to produce) then you are in serious need of some engineering lectures. At this time, people still have problems with yields on dual-layer HD formats, now you can figure out the problems with mass producing 4-8 layer discs needed for HD content on HD-VMD. Hmmmm, I wonder why those few films shown at IFA on VMD were less than spectacular as was reported by some observers.. could it be that those were actually lower bitrate movies on 2layer discs because the 4 layer VMD reqired for real HD content are still "in experimental studies"?
