Posted by Spex on 01/11/08 18:13

Jan Panteltje wrote:
> On a sunny day (Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:55:55 GMT) it happened "Smarty"
> <nobody@nobody.com> wrote in <fkMhj.9$s67.7@trndny05>:
>
>> Add this 3rd approach to the HD DVD and BluRay format war:
>>
>> Low cost $199 player and titles now shipping.
>>
>> http://www.nmeinc.com/production.aspx
>>
>> Smarty
>
> 20 layers of 5 GB each, OK, with Red laser OK, 100 GB / disk.
> Now lets wait for the authoring tools and burners,
> and until Warner starts shipping its movies in that format.
> Usually adding many more layers increases noise and changes for data errors.
>
> I'd say: Forget about this.
> They are looking for investors :-)
>


China and India alone make this format extremely viable. VCD was
extremely popular in Asia due to its low cost of production of both
media and players. This looks like it could be as popular in the Asian
market as VCD was.

Don't rule it out being the leading platform in its own market.

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