New Medium Enterprises (NME) has announced that it will be debuting its HD VMD PC products this week at MEDIA-TECH. The company will also demonstrate its true HD VMD 20 (GB) disc playback using an "off the shelf" DVD drive.
New Medium Enterprises (NME) (OTC BB:NMEN.OB - News) today announced that it is publicly debuting its HD VMD PC products this week at MEDIA-TECH, the renowned annual conference for the packaged media manufacturing industry taking place in Barcelona, Spain.
NME's HD VMD PC technology will enable consumers to make their current PC drives compatible with VMD playback format through a simple download, and will also offer PC manufacturers VMD drives for future VMD technology formats. NME will officially demonstrate its true HD VMD 20 (GB) disc playback with an ``off the shelf'' DVD drive equipped with HD VMD PC playback software, along with its new HD VMD media player. The proprietary PC drives will go on sale in Q3 07.
I must admit that I've really been looking forward to NME's HD VMD PC products. The ability to playback HD VMD titles using your existing hardware just sweetens the deal. If you'd like to read more, NME's entire press release can be found here.