HD VMD are available
Posted on 13/01/08 14:36 by Tim Stork                             
HD VMD are available

With all the drama and action around the format war, it's easy to forget about a third high-definition format... New Media Enterprises (NME) announced two days ago that HD VMD players are shipping into the United States and will cost less than $200.

We could say that HD VMD is a bit late and that they need luck to get even close to Blu-ray. Only a few studio's have announced that they are backing HD VMD and that means a small amount of movie titles to be available.

You can easily buy the player because it costs only $200, but you should note that your favorite movies will not be available.

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By Noobster (guest), Monday 14 January 2008 09:26
depends on what you think is our favourite movie, because on their website they seem to have released as much movies (not quite but not that far) as blueray or hd dvd... At least big titles i thought they wouldn't release
By FidelC, Monday 14 January 2008 16:27
FidelChttp://nmestore.com/index.php?cPath=2 Indeed. Tell you what. If they distribute their movies through convenience stores and gas stations (no pun intended) for $17.49, like on the site, many of us will adopt the format just in spite and to show the industry their real place. loveit P.S. If the rest of the big studios dump hd-dvd then the choice btw Sony and the peoples format becomes even more obvious. devil
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By pingalaka (guest), Thursday 12 June 2008 10:57
The format needs the support of the HD loving consumers. Afterall how long one can wait for the price of the blu-ray discs to come down and also consider the difficulty in coping with such a new technology. Even Blu-ray did'nt have much of software support when it was trying to muscle in !
By Some Random Guy, Thursday 12 June 2008 14:22
Some Random GuyI need to get me one of these, so I can own Scary Movie on Blu-ray, Scary Movie 4 on HD-DVD, and Scary Movie 2 on HD VMD Stick Out Tongue
By Kristian (guest), Friday 01 August 2008 09:12

I have an AVCHD camcorder from Panasonic which makes it possible to produce home videos of up to 1 hour on a standard DVD. These can be played back on a normal blu ray player, but apparently also on this item which is only 1/2 the price of a blu ray player here in Denmark. Sounds interesting. Does any one know if it can play back such a disk? (I don't care so muck about movies).

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