A DVD capable of holding 20GB could go head-to-head against HD DVD and Blu-ray
The home entertainment market is still wrestling with having two HD optical formats, HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc, but soon it will have to deal with another. UK-based New Medium Enterprises (NME) has developed the Versatile Multilayer Disc (VMD), a new optical-based format capable of storing 20GB of data.
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I don't agree with that. I WISH I could agree with that. But buying habits and customer opinions prove otherwise
We've seen developers in the AAA space try new things and ideas. More often than not, the customers aren't willing to give things a chance, or not enough people buy into the project for it to grow.
Creativity works better in the indie space because the budgets, pressures, and expectations aren't the same.
it's a nice idea and it worked during the PS2/PS3-era when AAA didn't cost hundreds of millions of dollars. smaller budgets and shorter development time left room for more creativity and more risk. a game didn't need to sell 4 million+ copies to break even. things are different now.
This is the guy who bragged about crunching his staff and having them work through the night. Crunch culture has lost more talent and done more damage to the industry than any other factor. Screw him.
"The HD VMD Media Player Duo, starting at $199 (MSRP) and the HD VMD Media Player Quattro, starting at just $249 (MSRP), will both be available from PC Rush in Q2 2007."
-Well if thats true then I guess it all depends on how much studio support they have, if its the same or more than HD DVD then I think at those prices it will definitely be a contender if not draw some huge sales, hmmm, this whole "format stuff" looks messy, Can somebody please compromise, we will see but until then I'm not buying either...."May the best man, errr format Win!"
Forget DVD or anything disc related I'm tired of buying a product that is designed to scratch purposefully so I have to keep buying more. No I’m done with this tech its time for tiny drives that store everything like Ipods that hold 100gb with downloadable content.
just wondering... does this need a special laser or just a different firmware installation?? because if its just firmware then the 360 could use these quad dvds and make disc space a non-issue!
Switching between layers with DVD/HD DVD/VMD all have the same flaws. Which Blu-ray does'nt have, no pause when switch layers so performance is not effected.
but this may be coming a little too late. If it came out last year I'd say they'd have a good chance, but it seems to me the studios have already made the investments into HD-DVD or BR. The fairly low cost to the consumers could still make it a player, but if HD-DVD comes out with a $300 player as rumored, then I think it'll be a hard sell.
@PS3Fan, your name says it all. You have no credibility. I don't know of anybody else, but I have never experienced any pauses when watching a DVD or playing games on DVD.