Suhit Gupta
11-16-2004, 03:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://news.designtechnica.com/article5921.html' target='_blank'>http://news.designtechnica.com/article5921.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"New Medium Enterprises Inc. announced today the public unveiling of the highly anticipated pre-industrial VMD (Versatile MulitLayer Disc), the next generation HD Disc & Drive containing 20GB of storage capacity on the current Red Laser technology platforms. The HD films will be shown in genuine HD formats (MPEG-2, 1080i and 1080p). The company is set for launching production and sales of 15 GB, 20 GB, 25 GB and 30 GB Discs & Drives by Fall 2005. The drives will be inherently backward compatible with the existing pre-recorded and recordable DVD and CD formats."</i><br /><br />In 2006, the company will start manufacturing cost-effective 50 GB VMD's on Red Laser, for HDTV and Digital Cinema. So now the competition is up to four players? Blu-Ray (looking like it is in the lead), HDDVD, Pioneer's electron-beam Optical Disks and now the VMD. This seems like the flash memory wars all over again. Ok, I am going home tonight and making up a new format (will leak specs soon). :)