Could the Wii use HD-VMD?

[DarkNight_DS]

shams said:

@your mother: Yes, I agree - and come to the same conclusions. The tech revolves around a clever way of manufacturing multi-layered discs more than anything else.

If it truly does only require a firmware update, that's pretty amazing stuff. Wonder if the detector/read heads need to be upgraded or have more accuracy/data processing ability in them (to handle more layers at once)?

Going to be real interesting to see where this goes.

 Blu Ray and HD DVD can already support crazy amounts of layers on their discs... I don't see this as being something either format could use...  The PS3 would see no benefit in having this option.  Currently a 20GB Blu Ray disc would take 37+ minutes to read from start to finish on the PS3. The more layers you have, the longer it would take to load your data.  

The Wii on the other hand can go through 4.7GB in about 9+ minutes.  Having 4 layers instead of 2 would put the Wii at around 40+ minutes to read the entire disc from beginning to end.  Anyway, it's all theoretical I guess...  unless HD VMD is serious about getting Nintendo on board... we won't see anything of this tech for games.  

If anyone's curious how long it would take the 360 to read 4 layers from beginning to end... it would take aprox 20+ minutes.  Not bad...  Makes more sense to get MS on board... but MS definately won't jump on board as it's not in their best interest to support anything other then HD DVD and DVD at the moment.