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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.

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FBl5808d ago

If you have an RDM player,say "I"

sinender5808d ago

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

aaron235808d 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

theKiller5808d 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

sinender5808d 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?

Genesis55808d ago (Edited 5808d 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?

morganfell5808d ago

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FCC5808d ago (Edited 5808d 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.

hay5808d ago (Edited 5808d 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...

ar5808d 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.

FCC5808d ago (Edited 5808d 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 Yoshida5808d 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

aiphanes5808d 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?

GrandTheftZamboni5808d ago

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

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

aaron235808d 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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The Last of Us joins PlayStation’s 30th Anniversary celebrations

Playstation writes: "As The Last of Us Part I launches into PlayStation Plus, enjoy TLOU-themed Avatars, PlayStation Gear discounts, and PlayStation Star challenges."

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crazyCoconuts8h ago

What a great game this was. Man we could use some more of these...

darthv724h ago

Does this game support cross progression? I still have not beaten the first (I got sidetracked with lots of other games) and Id like to pick up where I left off through this version.

Zeke683h ago

Yes, if you mean PS4 to PS5 to PS5 Pro. Same save can be imported.

Zeke683h ago

To clarify, I played it on PS3 OG version. Imported that save to my PS4 remaster, imported that one to the PS5 remake. Hope that makes it more clear. ;)

Zeke682h ago

@darth72 Oops sorry, my wife you told me the remake DID NOT support old saves. She said I restarted the game and usually she have a great memory. So sorry, it seems I was wrong about the remake! :(

CobraKai5m ago

Sick that your wife actually paid attention to your hobby.

CobraKai6m ago

Sad that this deep into PS5 and not one new ND game has been released.

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Ubisoft's Board is Launching an Investigation Into The Company Struggles

It has been announced that Ubisoft's Executive Committee and Board of Directors will launch an investigation and review of the company.

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Is Ubisoft board going to investigate themselves since they're the ones telling Ubisoft how to do less for more and push MTX over taking longer to make better games w/o them?

DarXyde13h ago(Edited 13h ago)

Breaking news:

Board investigation concludes wasteful spending on employee compensation packages responsible for financial woes. Live service a net positive for company.

OtterX12h ago(Edited 12h ago)

It's amazing how out of touch with gamers they've been for over a decade, and its only gotten worse.

The biggest innovation that I saw in that time was their "indie" arm w titles like Child of Light, and in VR with Eagle Flight and Transference. Loved all 3 of these titles. I want to see more of that side of Ubisoft, the one who takes risks.

BeHunted2h ago

Microsoft should open up their wallet and acquire Ubisoft

isarai12h ago

Honestly kinda glad all these AAA publishers are finally imploding, they've tainted this industry and took advantage of us too long. Die and don't come back

TheCaptainKuchiki11h ago

Ubisoft carries the entire french video games industry though. You don't want them to disappear or so many jobs are gonna be lost

isarai10h ago(Edited 10h ago)

Both can be true, sure i absolutely do not want the honest people just doing their jobs and living their passion to lose that, but im also so tired of the schemes, toxicity, ripoffs, blatant dishonesty, and literal scamming they've done for years while laughing in our face about it! They've gladly even targeted kids in search of their precious "whales". They have no shame, morals, or even basic humanity, their lower employees cant keep being their shield for consequences

RiseNShine5h ago

That's not reason enough for not letting them fall, at this point they promote non-owned, sometimes dissapearing, buggy, crappy over-expensive AAAA games with generic open world checklist games filled with political agenda. Let them burn i say, they are a perfect example of everything wrong in the industry and they should fall at this point.

FinalFantasyFanatic7h ago(Edited 7h ago)

Just let them burn, at this point, I don't care if a few developers like Ubisoft don't survive, it's healthier for the industry, although, with everything that's happening, I feel like we might be due for a crash.

XiNatsuDragnel12h ago

We need more implosions the AAA collapse is coming

TheCaptainKuchiki11h ago

It's too late. That should have been done a good 3 years ago.

Hofstaderman10h ago

They investigating themselves? Pffft...

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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 19h ago

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

lodossrage1d 18h ago

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

CrimsonIdol20h ago

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

qalpha4h ago

"I've got a great idea! Let's turn this article about corporate journalism into an attack on gamers!"

FPS_D3TH54m ago

It’s always those pesky gamers huh

Smellsforfree21m ago

Honestly, I find it amusing how all the incel hater left over rejects from gamer's gate lose their shit every time a non-scantily clad female protagonist is announced. Lol, they should just get out of gaming -- clearly it isn't for them anymore.

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thorstein23h 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_drake22h 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.

Tacoboto21h 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

porkChop14h ago

It's going to get even worse because IGN bought out a bunch of their competition this year. So IGN now publishes games, sells games, reviews the games they publish and sell, and controls a large portion of games media. What could go wrong?

JackBNimble5h ago

IGN has no more credibility then CNN

Mr_cheese14h ago

N4G owners are the worst for that.

One tweet or reddit comment = full blown article

Profchaos22h 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.

HankHill21h ago

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

Christopher20h ago

Always question change, always seek out facts.

victorMaje18h 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 :)

SimpleDad15h ago

@victorMaje No, this site user opinions? NO. This is not how it works my Victor. Trust meter??? LOL.

User reviews... this is what you have to look for, because games are made for users... not journalists.
Even if something is review bombed... there has to be a reason, something is wrong and you should hold on with your hard earned money.

Game sites are pushing... what they need to push, or want to push, or both.
Yes always seek out facts, right on Chris.

victorMaje15h ago

@SimpleDad

Of course games are made for users. That’s the whole point. I already seek out facts. Check my comment history you’ll see how I always advise to check trusted user reviews & I don’t pre-order.

Some journalism sites however do have user reviews, they’re not all bad journalism, these would raise the trust score of the journalism website, other stories with an agenda or disingenuous reviews could lower it.
Why not have such a tool coming out of N4G? It would be the metacritic of journalism websites, voted by N4G users. That doesn’t mean one should stop from also seeking user reviews.

thorstein1h ago(Edited 1h ago)

@victor that was an old feature on N4G. It went away before bubbles iirc.

Bubbles were how many comments we were allowed to make per story and you could earn more or lose them. Trolls would have 1 bubble. New users were limited to the number of comments so that prevented spam accounts.

A user like me had 12 bubbles right before it went away.

I miss bubbles.... and Cat.

Christopher49m ago

***Even if something is review bombed... there has to be a reason, something is wrong and you should hold on with your hard earned money. ***

Rarely are review bombs rational. Rarely.

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