These guys are PURE INDIAN! so nothing is unexpected ! Bakras would have to buy KASAII too, to get cut into pieces!

Guys so HD or Bluray I think bluray will be better
JAT

Blu-ray is HD

Ali

That qualified statement is enough to end the format war!

Gartner: HD DVD price cuts only prolong agony

Dan Nystedt

Price cuts by Toshiba on its HD DVD players in the U.S. earlier this month may prove to be "useless resistance" in the battle against the rival Blu-ray Disc optical disc format, according to Gartner.

The market research company expects Blu-ray Disc to win the battle against HD DVD (high definition digital video disc) in the consumer market by the end of 2008, becoming the next generation replacement for DVDs.

Toshiba's price cuts came after a major Hollywood studio, Warner Bros., announced it would shift from producing in both formats to just Blu-ray alone, expanding the disc format's advantage in the number of movies and other content. Five of the seven major Hollywood studios now back Blu-ray Disc exclusively, while the HD DVD camp has just two, Paramount and Universal.

"Gartner believes that Toshiba's price-cutting may prolong HD DVD's life a little, but the limited line-up of film titles will inflict fatal damage on the format. Gartner expects that, by the end of 2008, Blu-ray will be the winning format in the consumer market, and the war will be over, wrote analyst Hiroyuki Shimizu in Gartner's Semiconductor DQ Monday Report.

Toshiba announced price cuts on its HD DVD players in the U.S. Jan. 15, just weeks after losing Warner Bros. The company will cut the price of its HD-A3 player in half, to US$149.99 from $299.99, while its higher end models, the HD-A30 and HD-A35 are now listed for $199.99 and $299.99, respectively.

Toshiba pledged to keep up the fight against Blu-ray Disc during a press conference at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this month, despite numerous media reports and analyst comments pronouncing Blu-ray Disc the winner of the format battle. The Japanese company still has some powerful allies in HD DVD, including Microsoft, which sells an add-on HD DVD player for the Xbox 360.

Should HD DVD lose the format war, Microsoft will have to start using Blu-ray Disc on the Xbox 360 in order to allow users to play high definition video games. It's not an outcome the U.S. company would likely want to see. Blu-ray Disc was developed by Sony and is an integral part of the PlayStation 3 game console, a rival to the Xbox 360.

The addition of the high definition drives to the two game consoles has given game makers a new way to add content to their digital games, because both formats have far more storage capacity than traditional DVDs.

At the Taipei Game Show 2008 on Friday, Sony showed off a display of games created using Blu-ray optical discs. Over 100 game titles have already been published in Blu-ray Disc, said Sakura Wang, a marketing manager at Sony Computer Entertainment in Taiwan.

An Xbox 360 booth at the game show displayed the HD DVD logo and showed movies and games for the format, but a Microsoft spokesman could not be reached for comment on the total number of games already published in the format.

If we could get these red-laser drives for about $40, I'd be willing to be a test dummy for the media.

http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Pr ... wsId=19439

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NME Targets PC Users With HD VMD

New Medium Enterprises has trialled its HD VMD playback software as well as VMD multilayer PC drives.

The company will release the HD VMD playback software for download in February 2007, initially in 10 regions worldwide. The software will also be offered to hardware manufacturers as a bundling solution.

The proprietary Multilayer PC drives will go on sale in the 2nd Quarter to playback the 4-layer VMD discs. The VMD multilayer drives will be made available at an affordable price, according to the company.

The HD VMD Playback software will support both VMD disc formats ? the HD VMD Duallayer (on DVD9) and VMD multilayer disc.

"It will carry some unique, powerful playback features and functions and will support multi-language and regional settings," said NME in a statement.

The minimum system requirements are any Intel Pentium 4.2.4 or AMD Althon 2400 to playback HD in 1920x1080.

An independent Technology Entrepreneur Vijay Shah, Chairman of V2 Technologies India, who have run the initial trials commented that "The Image quality is visibly superior when using HD VMD playback and it comes with powerful features and functionality."

More interesting....

New Medium Enterprises Debuts HD VMD PC Products At Media-Tech
LONDON, March 7, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- New Medium Enterprises (NME) (OTCBB:NMEN) today announced that it is publicly debuting its HD VMD PC products this week at MEDIA-TECH, the renowned annual conference for the packaged media manufacturing industry taking place in Barcelona, Spain.


NME's HD VMD PC technology will enable consumers to make their current PC drives compatible with VMD playback format through a simple download, and will also offer PC manufacturers VMD drives for future VMD technology formats. NME will officially demonstrate its true HD VMD 20 (GB) disc playback with an "off the shelf" DVD drive equipped with HD VMD PC playback software, along with its new HD VMD media player. The proprietary PC drives will go on sale in Q3 07.

"The release of the HD VMD PC products is timed perfectly to coincide with the launch of HD VMD content from various distribution partners in key regions," commented Mahesh Jayanarayan, NME CEO.

VMD is currently being adopted by content providers and distributors in 12 regions worldwide, including Brazil, Central Europe, China, France, Germany, Iceland, India, Japan, the Middle East Russia, Scandinavia and the United States.

VMD technology can provide up to eight information layers on each side of a disc and can be utilized for both blue laser and red laser formats, thereby offering numerous content options and business opportunities for the high-definition and content ecosystem.

About NME

New Medium Enterprises HD VMD format and players provides the world's first low-cost and true high-definition playback solution utilizing today's red laser technology and existing DVD industrial infrastructure. Incorporating break-through optical storage capacity, a red laser-based HD file format, encryption technology, authoring tools and compression technologies, NME is providing the only high-quality and high-value offering for the discerning consumer electronics market. New Medium Enterprises, Inc. is listed on the OTC exchange in the U.S. under the symbol NMEN. For additional information about NME, please visit http://www.nmeinc.com.

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Same here, I'd even pay more for it to test drive it .

I'm more interested in the quality and types of encoding going to be used for this new format. Their spec seem pretty open and very much like Blu-ray & HD-DVD; they can use current DVD Mpeg2 encoding or the new VC1 encoding like HD-DVD & Blu-ray (first discs on Blu-ray were Mpeg2 encoded and many people weren't very impressed with the HD quality.)

What I also don't get is if Eros are so heavily involved with this format why would they release their catalogue on Blu-ray too, ala OSO? Unless they are just releasing high profile releases on Blu-ray or maybe dual released on multiple HD formats.

Ali

I agree!! Saale iss baar kitne paani main hain dekhna hai

Warner’s Blu-ray Sneak Peek Includes All-Time Classics for ‘09
'The Wizard of Oz' and 'Gone with the Wind' are among some scheduled Blu-ray release highlights Warner Bros. previewed.
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Warner Bros. Home Video gave a preview of some upcoming Blu-ray highlights
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February 07, 2008 | by Arlen Schweiger

We know you look forward to material like “The Gameplan” and “Alien vs. Predator: Requiem” hitting shelves on Blu-ray, but you might be wondering when you’ll start seeing more classics get the high-def treatment for you to enjoy on your sprawling home theater screen. OK, maybe your parents are wondering at least.

Warner Home Video, fresh off its move to Blu-ray exclusivity, gave a preview of some of the HD goodness it plans to offer in 2008 and 09 as part of its 85th birthday celebration, High-Def Digest reports, and it’s going way, way, way back for some top-tier movie classics.

The company did not reveal all of its releases, just highlights. And those in the Blu-ray titles included “Gone with the Wind,” “The Wizard of Oz,” “North by Northwest” (my personal fave of Hitchcock’s) and Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry series. Look for that last one in 2008, and the others mentioned in 2009.

So some of it’s just a tease right now, but hey, if these are the highlights, then there’s gotta be plenty more where that came from. And I for one am pretty intrigued at seeing how much can be done to improve the quality of movies that are going to be 70 (!) years old.

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Another FATAL BLOW:

Netflix picks Blu-ray, good luck renting an HD DVD soon

Posted Feb 11th 2008 8:50AM by Evan Blass
Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
In what can only be classified as yet another crushing blow to the embattled HD DVD camp, rent-by-mail giant Netflix has just announced its intention to only stock Blu-ray titles in the future. Netflix justified its decision by pointing out the fact that most Hollywood studios seem to be converging solely around the Sony-backed format -- a fact that's all too familiar to Toshiba and friends. With both Blockbuster and now the 'Flix having eschewed HD DVD for BD, it's gonna get harder and harder to even find a place to rent those former discs in the first place, let alone one that has a decent selection.

The only place left to rent HD-DVD is Blockbuster. Now the question is when will Blockbuster dump HD-DVD in favor of Blu-ray.

Two high street retailers have drop HD-DVD altogether in the UK; Woolworth & Dixons Group (Currys, PC World).

Ali

This will be the nail in the coffin for HD DVD if it is true!
http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/ ... D_DVD/1468


Report: Toshiba to Drop HD DVD
Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 08:29 PM ET
Tags: Toshiba (all tags)

The Hollywood Reporter is citing "reliable industry sources" as saying that Toshiba is on the verge of officially dropping its HD DVD format.

Though Toshiba denies that any such decision has been made, the just-published article in The Reporter points to "substantial" losses from each HD DVD player sold and a series of high-profile defections as key motivators for the company, with one unnamed source close to the HD DVD camp telling the Reporter that "an announcement is coming soon... it could be a matter of weeks."

Asked to respond to the report, Toshiba VP Jodi Sally reiterated her company's support of the HD DVD format. "Based on its technological advancements, we continue to believe HD DVD is the best format for consumers, given the value and consistent quality inherent in our player offerings," said Sally.

The exec went on to address "the market developments in the past month," saying only that "Toshiba will continue to study the market impact and the value proposition for consumers, particularly in light of our recent price reductions on all HD DVD players."