I am excited to hear this.

"WOW" Blu-ray just got released. What's with all this new disc media format stuff?
I haven't even took advantage of Blu-ray yet. Now another media format? WTF?

LOL 1920p? People just paid for their (expensive) 1080p TVs, you think they're going to let some company come in and say "Sorry, that's obsolete now, you need to pay $50,000 for a new TV so you can play our disc format that really doesn't look very different from blu-ray"?

Blu-ray discs are not limited to 50GB, that's just all they've been able to fit on a dual-layer. There have already been rumours that a 500GB blu-ray disc could become available in the future. Visuals can't GET much better than blu-ray, the majority of people don't want technology for the sake of technology at a ridiculous price after they've just invested in a new disc format.

This will fail harder than Betamax.

@Kantor

You couldn't say it even better..This would be really disappointed and piss me off. It would be like how Dreamcast was cut off after a year.

Sony just entered the format media and is successful now some asshole company wants to tout their new media and say their media can achieve 1920p.lol

Who the hell needs that now?

1920p TVs will exist in the future but not near enough to really care, the US still needs to pass into the digital age in February.

That level of encryption is insane... if they can make something that hard to crack studios will jump on it like it's the greatest shit ever and dumb(stupid one eyed post... it's funny how you can mess up when you can only use one eye) br like a ugly gf

Somebody made this thread already... but just by few minutes...

This could prove to be the storage medium for the Next Box. Next Gen is really going to be Microsoft's time to shine folks.

The irony about this story is they are ecstatic about their anti piracy measures. Which all but ensures that their venture will fail. Such features are universally bad for manufacturers. Hardware manufacturers are at cross purposes with media providers. They want to sell hardware, and anti piracy features radically decrease sales. For the simple reason that piracy has always been a necessary feature of media formats. A ghost the industry does not want to acknowledge. It doesn't matter how many studios get on board if the hardware manufacturers cannot cut themselves a real profit.

The hardware market is very dependent upon piracy. In fact they couldn't sell their products in many markets without piracy. Piracy establishes a secondary market and a secondary purpose. Without piracy VHS would have never thrived as it has. Thanks to the piracy by consumers of television programming. The same holds true of Compact Discs, Audio tapes, and even DVD. The ability to copy is paramount for a media formats success.

What corporations need to come to term with is that piracy is going to persist, and if you ever make it impossible you effectively kill your product. Over half the planet is dependent on piracy to justify the purchase of the hardware. Most consumers buying pirated media are not evil or mean spirited. They are just poor. They cannot afford to spend more then a dollar for a movie.

The best deterrence against piracy is an appeal to consumer conscience. The reason most people who can afford to buy legal media do not pirate is, because their conscience prevents them from doing so. The same with all theft for that matter. For most people stealing generates bad feelings. You know what overcomes that though a sense of vengeance. Which is what happens when they are treated as criminals, or are forced to deal with exotic ordeals. Do that and you fast learn they will teach you the meaning of an eye for an eye.

"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.

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."

If it costs less than Blu-ray w/higher quailty, has no major cost for a production upgrade, and improve privacy protection, I can see this replacing Blu-ray and DVD fairly quickly.  They give 2048-bit encryption and up to 1920p HD at the cost of what current DVDs are running; there is little reason to believe companies would not jump on this.  A slight modification to the current DVD production processes is all they are claiming it will take.