Versatile Multilayer Disc Versatile Multilayer Disc Versatile Multilayer Disc (VMD or HD VMD) is a high-capacity red laser optical disc technology designed by "New Medium Enterprises, Inc.". VMD was intended to compete with the blue laser Blu-ray Disc format and had an initial capacity of up to 30GB per side. At CeBIT in March 2006, NME demonstrated a prototype VMD player and announced that they were expecting to launch the format in the third quarter of 2006. At the Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association trade show in September 2007, NME exhibited two players set for release in October 2007. There were 20
Picture disc from the late 1940s through the 1950s. Their most popular and well-known issues resembled Vogue records in their general style of illustration and use of high-quality materials, but they were only 7 inches in diameter, had no reinforcing core disc, and sold for a much lower price. Other companies such as Voco also made picture discs for children. Red Raven Movie Records, introduced in 1956, were a very unusual type of children's picture disc. They featured a sequence of sixteen interwoven animation frames arrayed around the center and were to be played at 78 rpm on a turntable with a