New Medium Enterprises (NME) pushed the Versatile Multi-layer Disc (VMD) format that it claims stores up to 40GB per disc using the same low-cost red lasers used in standard DVD drives. It plans to sell a player for €150, less than a third of the price of an HD player.
VMD uses multi-layer recording and there were 20GB, 30GB and 40GB discs on show. NME spokesman Alexander Bolgar-Hagerty said 100GB VMD recording had been achieved in the lab.
He said NME is merging with E-World which owns EVS, a Chinese HD standard. NME owns a higher resolution (1,900 x 1,080) standard.
Bolgar-Hagerty said: ‘Because our technology is multi-layer, it can be adapted to blue laser when it becomes more affordable.’
NME is not trying to compete with the Blu-ray and HD-DVD formats head on. Bolgar-Hagerty said: ‘We have to start somewhere and we have signed up Bollywood and the Chinese [film] markets, the two largest markets in the world.’
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