Blu-Ray, HD-DVD? Nah, how about EVD instead

In a semi-snubbing move, some Asian companies plan to show off their red-laser based next generation DVD formats at CeBit this week, and why wouldn't they? China never really adopted the DVD standard; instead, they're using the Enhanced Versatile Disc (EVD) format. New Medium Enterprises claims that they can use the current EVD format but increase the number of 5 GB layers to ten layers per disk. Keep in mind that this format uses a red-laser, like today's DVD format, making the EVD a potential high-definition successor in China. New EVD players with this format are expect to provide support for 1980 x 1080 resolution and only retail for $150.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 6th 2006 9:53AM]

Wow! $150 is pretty cheap. Why cant blu-ray and HD-DVD do the same with price?

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 6th 2006 10:19AM]

I want one of these. Forget about HD-DVD or BluRay

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 6th 2006 1:36PM]

Give me EVD and a good number of movie titles. I'll bet DRM is much less restrictive and will offer full 1080i/720p over component video.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 6th 2006 6:53PM]

"China never really adopted the DVD standard" ?????

Go to any chinese city and see the abundance of pirate DVDs on sale and the endless stacks of no-name chinese DVD players.

In fact, most DVD players available in the west are chinese DVD players rebadged with more familiar brands.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 31st 2006 7:25AM]

Why haven't the chinese released this to the rest of the world? I would buy it in a minute. Cheaper recorder cheaper media.