Enjoy high resolution at low prices

The HD-DVD battle and Blu-ray disc may be the most hysterical and popular, but at CeBIT, the truth of "Cheap is mine" is not always true.

Source: News.softpedia At least, you will come across a system that provides sharp picture quality like Sony but surprisingly cheap.

Called the Versatile Multilayer Disc, the system still uses red laser technology that is currently applied to existing DVDs. Meanwhile, both HD-DVD and Bru-ray use green lasers.

It can be said that the color of the laser is very important, because it determines the size of the dots that the laser creates on the surface of the disk, thereby deciding on the data storage space. Green rays have a shorter wavelength than red rays, so the laser dots are also smaller, the data is stored in a smaller space, so that each disk can store as much data as possible.

Existing DVDs can store about 4.7GB of data on each side, while HD-DVD allows 15GB and Blu-ray to expand to 25GB. Because high resolution images require tremendous amounts of data, disk capacity plays a vital role. That is also the reason why electronics giants like Sony and Toshiba apply lasers to their new disc format.

New approach

Not loud, noiseless, completely quietly behind the Blu-ray battle - HD-DVD, New Medium chose another direction and a different approach. NME decided to increase the number of faces for the DVD to increase storage capacity without resorting to green lasers. As at the present time, the company has built DVDs with up to 10 floors, equivalent to 50 GB of lab capacity.

The biggest advantage of this method is that the DVD players needed to enjoy sharp images are still very cheap, only about 150 USD compared to the price of 500 USD - 1000 USD that Sony or Toshiba offer. NME said it planned to release the disc in the third quarter of this year.

" We don't want grasshoppers kicking cars with big men," said Levich, NME executive director. NME will promote the first VMD disc in China and India, then Eastern Europe, Russia and South America. "That's enough for a small company like us. "

Levich believes that the demand for ultra-high definition, high-definition movies is huge, and this is the potential market that NME is targeting. When countries are more selective than HD-DVD or Blu-ray as a high-definition format, users in developing countries are still willing to spend money on the same quality but the price is sky-high. an area.

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