neil wilkes
2K Club - QQ Super Nova
Just got this in my inbox:
20+ Gb on red laser discs, all it takes to play them is a free download & a standard DVD-ROM or DVD-RW drive.
This company is worth keeping a close eye on.
Looks like both Sony & Toshiba will be getting a serious run for their money, as the software players for this are not only freely downloadable, but the players will also be cheap, authoring software will be affordable, and it will happily support DTS audio as well as (possibly) DTS-HD MAS for a lossless stream as well, with the advent of DTS getting a new chip manufacturing deal sorted out for embedded decoders to handle all the new High Res & Lossless streams from the DTS-HD MAS encoder.Contact:Juliet Francis
NME Press Office
T: +44 (0) 20 7813 0502
[email protected]
MEDIA ALERT
NME DEBUTS HD VMD PC PRODUCTS AT MEDIA-TECH
London – March 7, 2007: New Medium Enterprises (NME) (OTC Bulletin Board: 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 .
20+ Gb on red laser discs, all it takes to play them is a free download & a standard DVD-ROM or DVD-RW drive.
This company is worth keeping a close eye on.