http://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA6449280.html


Apocalypto, The Descent and The Queen, among other high-profile films, will be distributed by Icon Film Distribution on the fledgling high-definition format HD VMD in the territories of Australia and New Zealand.

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Apocalypto, The Descent and The Queen have already been released in the U.S. on Blu-ray through Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Lionsgate and Miramax Home Entertainment/Buena Vista, respectively—all studios that hold domestic distribution rights to these films. Additionally available at U.S. retailers are Universal Studios Home Entertainment’s The Hitcher as a combo DVD and HD DVD title and Paramount Home Entertainment’s We Were Soldiers on HD DVD and Blu-ray.


BD/HDDVD exclusive studios are releasing films in a completely different format in other regions. Not just the other format (as mentioned in the HDDVD forum with certain HDDVD imports), but a totally different HD media format altogether. What does this mean for those areas? I expect it to have little to no affect on the format war in the US but what of Australia and elsewhere?

This might have a better chance than the failed Chinese EVD's. Being that this is a French format, I personal would not give it my time of day. Remember Freedom Fries, not french fries.

There has been discussion on this at the HiDef News thread.
Link to thread (http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=752933)

If that's the case, i'll just bring them in from the US. Thats if they work on the Region B players.

At some point it will be a national pride thing, all we need is the belgians and the angolans to come up with their own codecs and media and DRM/noDRM and then it would really be fun.

Being that this is a French format, I personal would not give it my time of day. Remember Freedom Fries, not french fries.



was that necessary? :rolleyes:

Yes it was necessary. France is offering aid and comfort to "Sopranos" creator David Chase. Let's make them all pay! :rolleyes:

Reading more on their strategy, I think the true killer here would be the Optikey Anti-Counterfeit Technology. This may make Fox and MGM finally release movies in HD.

Apologies for the french comment. I just had to, my brother is in Iraq fighting for our freedom.

<mildly political>
After the next election can we start calling them french fries again? I don't think anybody really ever went along with freedom fries anyway. It was a dumb idea.
</whatever>

- Tom

This might have a better chance than the failed Chinese EVD's. Being that this is a French format, I personal would not give it my time of day. Remember Freedom Fries, not french fries....[/URL]
That's one of most stupid stunts politicians pulled, a really pathetic example of style over substance :( BTW, it's back to French fries again.

VMD is not a French format anyway, it's more a British and Chinese format.

This might have a better chance than the failed Chinese EVD's. Being that this is a French format, I personal would not give it my time of day. Remember Freedom Fries, not french fries.


you are a sad individual.

you are a sad individual.

Nice first post...sheesh.

This might have a better chance than the failed Chinese EVD's. Being that this is a French format, I personal would not give it my time of day. Remember Freedom Fries, not french fries.

There has been discussion on this at the HiDef News thread.
Link to thread (http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=752933)

Don't be so ignorant.
If I could apologize for you I would.

I hope your brother comes home alive and well.

Don't be so ignorant.
If I could apologize for you I would.

I hope your brother comes home alive and well.

Freedom Fries is funny.

He's not ignorant, I laughed. French jokes never get old.

Anyway, back from our silly French bashing, here's a link to the small amount of info summarizing the VMD format at Wikipedia.com (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versatile_Multilayer_Disc).

- Tom

Freedom Fries is funny.

He's not ignorant, I laughed. French jokes never get old.
At least they were smart enough to not jump in the lake just because we did. ;)

I look forward to someone buying VMD here, I'd like to hear some first-hand accounts.

This might have a better chance than the failed Chinese EVD's. Being that this is a French format, I personal would not give it my time of day. Remember Freedom Fries, not french fries.

There has been discussion on this at the HiDef News thread.
Link to thread (http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=752933)

French format?

The company developing this has its global HQs in the UK.... maybe I'm missing something.

Otherwise, "heh".

I wonder how easy it would be to incorporate HD-VMD playback on bluray or hddvd players.

French format?

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I wonder how easy it would be to incorporate HD-VMD playback on bluray or hddvd players.

And more interesting to me, how soon can I get an inexpensive quad layer DVD burner to make these things myself?

Anybody have any idea if the disc blanks would be expensive?

- Tom