At the Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association (CEDIA) trade show in Denver, a company promoting a new high-definition optical disc format demonstrated set-top players and high-definition movies that cost far less than ones that use the competing Blu-ray Disc or HD DVD formats. The only faux pas: Arriving late to a two-party format war that consumers are already reluctant to support.
Next month, New Medium Enterprises' 1080p set-top players, which use the HD VMD (Versatile Multilayer Disc) format, will go on sale on Amazon.com and in stores such as Radio Shack and Costco for around $150--about half the cost of the least-expensive 1080p HD DVD player, and perhaps a fourth the cost of the least-expensive Blu-ray player. The movies that work in them are similarly inexpensive.
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News source: PCWorld
Next month, New Medium Enterprises' 1080p set-top players, which use the HD VMD (Versatile Multilayer Disc) format, will go on sale on Amazon.com and in stores such as Radio Shack and Costco for around $150--about half the cost of the least-expensive 1080p HD DVD player, and perhaps a fourth the cost of the least-expensive Blu-ray player. The movies that work in them are similarly inexpensive.
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Second, we will see $150 HD DVD players this holiday season so this is really a non issue. The real thing is studio support and the pricing of discs and in that regard, we won't see any realistic pricing until any HD format gets mass adoptation.
AHAHAHA... Too LATE. Too LATE. The big companies dont know YET how to sell the new "high" definition format and you ppl come with this now?. HAHAHAHA. Plus the sellings are not so good like hollywood expect, so, your format could die alone and in peace
I totally agree with you! To the avergae joe, its all about price - thats the most important factor that drives people to buy most things!
this very much sounds like a format in which youre very locked into one "vendor" (-> movie studio...)
i dont get why they felt they had to add a HD in front of that VMD which sound ok, but that HD makes it sound annoyingly difficult, not that i dont get it, but it just sounds like it was made up of crap
Glassed Silver:mac
**** tv's and **** tv speakers can not realize the difference of these new formats, so there is zero gain. For those of us with decent gear, we want to squeeze each dot out at any cost.
You seem confused about who is buying these things. HD is niche and will remain that way until new tv's start to become more the norm in households, most peoples 68cm is going to last atleast another 5 years.
Is there any possibility of an all-format player, like LG did it? Not that i'm interested, even bcoz i don't know how long this one is gonna last...
Sorry for the bad english.
I see what you mean...
Who cares?? It's only a logo...
Who cares?? It's only a logo...
Doesn't mean you can't have an opinion on it.
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=586924
It's a cheap new HD format, late to the party. But one can't deny that the low cost could lure some buyers... Not only for the player but the movies too.
Well if history is any indication, the format that will win is the one that costs the least. However, with the playstation3 putting blu-ray into homes that would otherwise just have bought a console and DVD player (ignoring sonys position vs 360 vs Wii btw) then its quite possible that the format with the largest user base in place could win.... maybe.
I think personally id like Blu-Ray to win (and then the prices to come down!
You obviously need the GSX4000 Gratitude Storage Device. Plug one of these babies into your brain stem and you'll never run out of gratitude again!
;-)
DVD SELLS >> BLURAY + HDDVD SELLS
The "format wars" are in no way over.
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