HD VMD to Battle Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD

[gll99]

Was that sent by Western Union telegraph?

@hellspawn1616

Do you get the not so subtle hint?

[TheUnknownComic]

And dont forget the chinese have just finalized their ever so slightly different
player and system. Tho I think that is aimed squarely at the chinese market.
I'm sure it will be so cheap it might be attractive.

I read a recent article on the Chinese alternative. Technically, it's very similar to HD-DVD. This is very important because the players will be extremely similar. Since most cheap players come from China, the same plants will turn out the Chinese players along with the HD-DVD players. Thus, another reason HD-DVD players will become much cheaper much quicker.

[impmon2]

Bah yet another format that will thin out the market. We still have clearance sales on UMD movies and many stores aren't carrying those at all. There were another DVD based system that looked like oversized Gameboy SP and could play standard 3" DVD or some of the propierty game/movie discs. I never saw the actual product, only the demo display at Best Buy.


And I still have yet to get either HDDVD or BluRay. Maybe I should just shove the whole thing out of my house and go back to my old reliable reel to reel VTR and some 8-track tapes for music.

I may pick up the VMD player if it's cheap, plays standard DVD movies (since both used red laser), and there's a few decent high quality VMD movies out. Until then, I'm sticking with my old DVD player.

[gll99]

@impmon2

I may pick up the VMD player if it's cheap, plays standard DVD movies (since both used red laser), and there's a few decent high quality VMD movies out. Until then, I'm sticking with my old DVD player.

That's what I was thinking. If I was going to buy an upconverting dvd player anyway it would be one that plays my divx (mpeg-4) videos so if it costs close to the same and plays a few more formats like wmv9 and H.264 then why not. Not so much for the HD format alone but for the other added codecs it supports.

[DarrellS]

5. In many ways, WMV-HD is already obsolete. There are only a few titles available in WMV-HD, and none of the major studios support it. It's also extremely CPU intensive, even on higher end computers. H.264 and x264 are far superior, requiring much less CPU power, allow smaller sized files, and play at a higher quality than a similarly sized WMV-HD file.

It has been my experience that HD-WMV is way less CPU intensive as H264 and the sample files that I've downloaded look way better than the H264 files I've downloaded. To be honest, I don't know why Blueray and HD-DVD are even options except that they can con consumers out of so much money

My prediction is that if this player will play HD-WMV and HD-DivX/XviD files that it will sell like hotcakes, just like the Philips DivX players did when they came out. 2/3 of the population own PCs and they need a player that will play all their files that they download or create on their PCs.

I have zero need for a Blueray or HD-DVD player, as long as the format is so expensive and if I do pay alot for a player, it better play all my video formats, not just the ones they are trying to push on me. I don't want to have to buy a new burner and special discs just burn discs to watch on my TV. I can already watch the files I have on my computer for free.

[CaptainVideo]

The one important question has yet to be asked. Does it support DRM? And the answer is yes. Optikey. That sucks. You can't backup your HD VMD media.

http://www.nmeinc.com/technology_optikey.aspx

No thanks.

[MOVIEGEEK]

The one important question has yet to be asked. Does it support DRM? And the answer is yes. Optikey. That sucks. You can't backup your HD VMD media.

http://www.nmeinc.com/technology_optikey.aspx

No thanks.

I'm sure our friend fengtao will incorporate it in DVDFab.

[dadrab]

Was that sent by Western Union telegraph?

No...I think we were being yelled at.

Chill, mom.

[DereX888]

Was that sent by Western Union telegraph?

ROTFL

[zoobie]

Western Union used the word STOP as a period to end a sentence.
The idiots never thought of punctuation.
Needless to say, many people got very confusing telegrams...