One of the signs being approached on exhibition ceBIT is the splash activity of British company new medium enterprises (NME), known by its development in the region of optical disk, which bears the name versatile multilayer disc (VMD). Before the the last year ceBIT NME already gave out generous advances to its development; however, it did not reach the mass production of disks and devices for their recording and playback.
Let us look how will proceed the matters concerning VMD in the present year - indeed producer promises release for the market for players HD VMD media player duo on the price of 199 dollars and HD VMD media player quattro for 249 dollars already in the second quarter.
Let us recall, technology works with the red laser, and great capacity (to 20 Gb at the current moment) is reached by using several working slots, eatch contains 5 Gb of information. Strictly, players exactly are characterized by a quantity supported layers (2 or 4) disk.
NME indicates that its size is deprived of those deficiencies, which did not make possible to release DVD more than by two layers. Up to the present moment the developer already has specifications of disks with volume 24, 30, 40 and 48 Gb. Last index is completely competitive with HD DVD (51 Gb on the three-layered disk toward to the end of present year, only 30 Gb) and Blu-ray (50 Gb on the two-layered disk, already in sale).
Even present 20- Gb disks must completely be sufficient for films high resolution. VMD will work with the same codecs and systems of contetnt protection , that are used today BY HD DVD Blu-ray. players will be conversely compatible with DVD, will be supported scaling image to the HD- resolution.