Posted by Jan Panteltje on 01/11/08 18:27

On a sunny day (Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:13:12 +0000) it happened Spex
<No.spam@ta.com> wrote in <13ofcdtrspcg3ab@corp.supernews.com>:

>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.

I know, I produced many VCD, (half width), could get more on a CD that way.
But the authoring was not reliable with subtitles, worked on some players,
looked different on other DVD players (depending on chipset it seems),
even wrote some software for that.
Moved to embedded subtitles in the end...
That other China format never took of either (cant remember what it was called,
used VP10 codec?)..

Well, maybe you are right, sure if Hollywood sees that market, then they
will release in that format too.
Or the Chinese will just copy it from internet, and burn their own, before
the stuff is even in the theatre :-)

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