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DreamStream to Encrypt Blu-ray Competitor

RDM has developed a high-definition system that exceeds the capabilities of Blu-ray. RDM's technology offers storage capacity for up to 100 GB on a single disc. Blu-ray discs can only hold 50 GB of data. Due to RDM's increase in storage capacity, their system is able to offer display qualities that greatly exceed conventional, 1080p, high-definition.

Because RDM's system is based on inexpensive red laser technology, their players are expected to sell for much less than Sony's, which routinely sell for hundreds of dollars. The high price of Blu-ray players has been credited for the technology's slow public reception.

The retail prices for RDM's players and discs are expected to "equal those of the traditional DVD format, greatly undercutting Blu-ray," said Diebel.

FBl5807d ago

If you have an RDM player,say "I"

sinender5807d ago

with an update, rdm disk can be played through DVD players

aaron235807d ago

RDM uses red lasers and thats the similiarity
However it is just a theoretical format like VMD

Blu is teh future

BTW there is already a 500 gig BD disk

theKiller5807d ago

for any new tech it will have to come after 5 years at least, and if they r planning to rival blue ray now then they will lose because by the time of the new tech comes out blue ray will have several price drops including the ps3!!

it will no chance of competing with all the blue ray in the market and ps3!!

besides blue ray can hold up to 500GB so if there is a need for more space(i dont think that the case now) then they will upgrade with FW update the current blue ray players to be compatible to the new disks!!

its good to have new and cheap technology but its not good to miss up the market and make confusion

sinender5807d ago

RDM has a military grade encryption so its harder to create piracy off of it about about 30 times more powerful then blu ray , and its 100 gbs of memory on a single disk, and it uses red laser, so its faster at reading the disk :O, that pioneer 500 is humongously thick, how would that even in a ps3?

Genesis55807d ago (Edited 5807d ago )

Why bother? According to the BR bashers DD it the wave of the future and physical media is on it's way out(I don't agree). It's great that it has 1920p. But who has a 1920p TV?

Did anybody ask Hollywood if they are ready to change formats again?

morganfell5807d ago

Since the title is false it needs to be reported and disapproved.

FCC5807d ago (Edited 5807d ago )

If movies are put on RDM, I can see RDM replacing Blu-ray much faster than Blu-ray replacing DVD. RDM's lasers are inexpensive which is the biggest selling point. Most casuals refuse to switch to Blu-ray unless they bought a PS3.

Do you know anyone you owns a separate Blu-ray player? I don't. I don't know anyone that uses Blu-ray except for a few that have Blu-ray drives in their PCs or PS3s. I don't see many casuals buying PS3s either.

If the RDM player is very cheaper than the Blu-ray players, I can see it being more accessible to people on a tighter budget. Be reasonable here, I'd upgrade to Blu-ray if the players weren't gimped in features compared to DVD and since the best Blu-ray player is the PS3 and it's at $399, I can't fit that in my budget.

Sure, the Blu-ray discs can reach 500GB using 20 layers, but how thick is that going to be and how much are the lasers going to cost to read it? It's going to be even more expensive than the players now. What if RDM could layer itself if that was feasible? If it used 20 layers it could reach 2000GB... it's not feasible though.

I'm done my little pro-RDM bit, disagree away.

hay5807d ago (Edited 5807d ago )

We may not see it succeed on the market. Prices will be a bit high, as everything which is new and we haven't switched to bluray yet as a next standard for that matter.
Also... Since hd war win by bluray there were at least 3 news about uberawesome disc format which would hold all my furniture and few friends on one, single layer disc.
Also we don't need 1920p resolutions where 1080 isn't standard yet.

Cheap? OLEDs were meant to be cheap too...

ar5807d ago

Regarding the thickness of a 20 layer blu-ray.
Come on, do you really think Pioneer would spend millions of dollars developing i blu-ray disc so thick it won't fit in the players?
According to this article - http://www.pctechguide.com/... - on a dual layer blu-ray the distance from the disc surface to the front layer is 75µm, and that to the rear layer is 100µm.
This means then that a recording layer together with the adjacent spacing layer is 25µm. 25µm times 20 equals 500µm or half a mm. Seems thin enough to me.

FCC5807d ago (Edited 5807d ago )

"We may not see it succeed on the market. Prices will be a bit high"

DVD owners said that about Blu-ray...

"Also we don't need 1920p resolutions where 1080 isn't standard yet."

DVD owners also said that 1080p resolution wasn't needed when 720p was fine.

Cheap? OLEDs were meant to be cheap too... "

I'm going by what they said in the article, if they said that it's going to sell less than Blu-ray players now... Never mind that's too much logic.

"The retail prices for RDM's players and discs are expected to "equal those of the traditional DVD format, greatly undercutting Blu-ray," said Diebel."

"RDM's technology can be implemented into existing DVD production processes through the integration of a proprietary software and firmware system. The only potential hardware modification is, "at most, the simple replacement of a single chip," said Levich. As such, existing DVD manufacturers will be able to integrate RDM's technology with only minor modifications to their production processes."

This seems like they're not making an entirely different disc. Basically, their making an upgraded DVD, set to replace the price of DVDs as they are now. It doesn't look too expensive to produce new players because you only replace one chip. How much could one chip possibly cost? I reckon it'll take over faster when it turns into a retail format which is in early 2009. Don't expect it to magically take over but it's going to make a presence.

And I got 11 disagrees on my last comment? You mean you like spending 200 dollars for a separate Blu-ray player? You mean you like spending 20+ dollars for a Blu-ray disc? You mean you don't want a cheaper alternative? I know you all have PS3s and all think that Blu-Ray is the sh!t but the percentage of actual Blu-ray sales would be minuscule without the PS3. Since the PS3 owners already have Blu-Ray player, they might as well switch over to Blu-ray. For the people who didn't switch over, they refuse to buy more expensive hardware to play Blu-ray.

Cryos5807d ago

imagine if they decided to use this technology in blu-ray, as opposed to regular DVD.

Sevir045807d ago

tell me were you pissed as hell when Warner went blu... did you throw out your HD DVDs and external player for your 360? im sure you did. becaue you sound anti PS3 and ti sony... could be right. needless to say. the same people who said the and chimed the same thing about bluray were the same saying the same thing when CDs and DVDs were being introduced via the Playstation. so it stands to say, you defend a last gen product that took off to thanks to sony's foresight and the same is happening... DVD was realitively expensive at launch and as prices come down for manufacturing technology things become affordable... the same is happening now.

Do you really think that after all the work with switch and going one format that Movie studios are going to play confuse the customers again... we see where that went. Please there are other multilayered disc alternatives to bluray like the Red laser DVD and this but where the hell is the support from movie studios to want it...? i'm waiting

yes it can bve far superior but it's a ship floating DOW... stranded with no support which ultimately equals a failed failed attempt.

Get over it. Blu ray is here and it'll be here for the next 8-10 years till the new format war is ready...

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Lord Shuhei Yoshida5807d ago

What they dont realize is that Pioneer,Sony,and IBM made sure that the Blu-Ray is future proof and can be added with more layers to extend it from 50GB to 500GB and more.

Looks like the HD-DVD supporters can't cope with the loss

aiphanes5807d ago

Why are they even making higher capacity discs? I though DL were the wave of the future?

Bluray player are less than $200 now...and do you really think the studios are gonna gear up to publish on another format that is not proven?

GrandTheftZamboni5807d ago

"I though DL were the wave of the future? "

Exactly. Also, I thought that DVD upscaling is as good as 1080p.

aaron235807d ago

BLU RAY will kill DVD within 2 years worldwide
as soon as Drak knight is launched it is game over for DVD

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Game Journalism is too corporate to trust

Game reviews have been around since the mid-1970s. Play Meter was the first of its kind. During their time, it was mainly coin-operated machines that were covered, as certain arcade games that many of us consider classics such as Space Invaders were popular. Other publications sprang up, such as Arcade Alley in 1979. From then on, gaming journalism was on the rise. Electronic Games Magazine, Famitsu, The Games Machine, Nintendo Power, and others all gave way to gaming journalism’s growing popularity and importance. In the beginning, gaming journalism was about the love of the games, the history of the product, and giving potential consumers genuine insight. The passion was there. The commitment was there. The insight was there. And most importantly, the trust was there.

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jznrpg1d ago

That and a bunch of haters have made gaming a big negative cesspool.

lodossrage1d ago

True, that's almost as much of a problem as the gaming media itself

CrimsonIdol2h ago

There's a fair bit to hate about big corporate game companies

thorstein4h ago

They've become nothing more than corporate shills. Rather than speaking truth to power, they're just looking at the latest clickbait no matter how false it is.

The straight up lies are annoying. Then journalists claim that a lie is an opinion. Um... no.

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gold_drake4h ago

yea its been like this for years and only has gotten worse during covid.

they are sometimes worse than celeb. trash news ha.

"you will NOT believe what the DEV of XYZ said"

or and those are my favourites,

"XYZ game gets REMASTER TREATMENT" and you click on the link and its just a god damn mod ha.

Tacoboto3h ago

"XYZ Players are saying THIS about the new update!"

And the article is based on a single tweet from someone with an anime profile image

Profchaos3h ago

The gaming landscape today is full of corporations trying to suck as much money out of us as possible while giving us as little as possible in return that's the biggest problem I see right now and the fact the journos should be the ones calling the gross practices out now suckle at the teat of the publishers to stay in favour and maintain working relationships to avoid being blacklisted for reviews and preview events show their interests do not align with ours.

HankHill3h ago

Consume the new product and don't ask any questions.

Christopher1h ago

Always question change, always seek out facts.

victorMaje30m ago

Hey Chris, not sure if others have already suggested but here’s another idea for N4G, a website trust meter.
There used to be a way to click on the website of an article and downvote or something like that.
It can be like Steam’s rating, all time & recent.
Then the list of journalism website ratings accessible from a subdomain, jowebrat.n4g dot com :)

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Nintendo Accused of 'Bullying' in Weak Patent Dispute Over Palworld

The article discusses a claim by an intellectual property (IP) expert that Nintendo likely does not hold patents strong enough to prevent the game developer Pocketpair from creating Palworld, a game that some believe resembles Pokémon. The expert suggests that Nintendo's legal challenges against Palworld could amount to nothing more than corporate bullying, as the patents Nintendo might be relying on are not robust enough to stand up to legal scrutiny. The situation could be seen as an example of a large corporation trying to exert undue influence over a smaller competitor.

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-Foxtrot3d ago

Crazy how far they are willing to go over nothing rather than tell Game Freak to get their shit together and sort the quality of the mainline games out.

Personally I'd drop the two game bullshit, make a full on complete game, and take their time making the best game they can without relying on a silly battle gimmick they'll ditch after one game. Gimmicks out of battle is what they should be focusing on, beauty contests, berry making, secret bases, the underground, Seasons, events during day / night and post game content like travelling to a new location or something.

porkChop3d ago

That's the thing, this is why we're now seeing more serious competitors in the genre. Game Freak has just been coasting by, doing the bare minimum in innovation for the last 20+ years. They need to get with the times. Hire more devs, give more dev time to foster creativity, etc. But now that they can't get away with that bare minimum they're trying to sue their competitors out of existence. It's disgusting.

Cacabunga1d 8h ago

Nintendo risks big with this one.. it’s means competition to pokemon and that they dont want

gold_drake2d ago

been saying this since sun and moon.

gamefreak just isnt used to, still isnt used to, the console market. they did well on the handheld space but as a complete 3d developer z they fail miserable

the last two pkmn gens look like gamecube games. not to mention the bugs at launch.

but uve seen the ridiculous anount of copies sold at launch too.

Profchaos2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

Realistically though palworld Pokemon with guns featured so many themes and concepts that Nintendont
There's no way they would make a game where you could use realistic weapons or have pals slaving away.

They're not the same genre at all they just feature similar characters

Markdn1d 13h ago

Can't hide plagerism I guess, Palworld had it easy, even flaunting it, they deserve ever thing Nintendo decides to throw at them.

FinalFantasyFanatic2d ago

I pretty much agree, two editions of the same game shouldn't even been a thing at this point. The foundations are solid, but the lack of content and having a lived in world really let the latest games down.

Profchaos1d 17h ago (Edited 1d 17h ago )

Two editions worked way back in the day as a gimmick hey your mate has different Pokemon in blue than you have in red so trade them but nowadays it's pointless we don't have any of those limitations system links not really a thing anymore and two editions feels exploitive nowadays like they are targeting kids to double dip

badz1491d 23h ago

why would they do that when the fanbase is still willing to buy whatever low-effort and low-cost crap they are churning out? they are out to make as much money as possible with as little investment as possible and say what you want but GF is excellent at that front mainly because the fanbase allows them to. Nintendo is saying nothing because they are making money.

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Valkyrye3d ago

posting articles from msn.com now seriously?

MaximusPrime_2d ago

The article is actually Gamesradar's. MSN just used their page like a URL shortened link.

MeteorPanda2d ago

It's straight up bullying with mooney and using the government laws as a tool to do so. They should be fined.

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Dragon’s Dogma 2 Shouldn’t Let Its PS5 Pro Update Arrive Empty-Handed

Entering Q4 and with the impending release of the PS5 Pro and major AAA titles this holiday season, Dragon's Dogma 2 has a golden opportunity for DLC.

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Eonjay2d ago

I have to disagree. Personally, I feel like DD2 still needs a lot of optimization. I really dislike games that try to sell a bunch of DLC when their game is still a mess.

Redgrave2d ago

This, RDR2, Bloodborne.... and of course, Life of Black Tiger.