TDK UMD+R technology

[psplover]

www.tdk.com

A blu ray umd type technology that sony happens to be using in upcoming cameras will now have burners and disk.

[Cap'n 1time]

whoa... you can count on protection against this... and you can count on hacks allowing support for these in the future... now we need to wait for the horrifying portion of this news- the price.

[Onetonbullet]

Um...

By use of a blue-violet laser with an extremely short 405nm4 wavelength, a large recording capacity of 23.3GB – about five times that of a DVD disc – is realized on a disc of the same size. In addition, high-sensitivity phase change materials and an optimized layer structure allows for a high-speed transfer rate of 72Mbps with stabilized recording and playback.

Yeah thats just a standard DVD sized disc......

[SchmuckofNI]

Or it could turn out like the sega cd and pc engine cd rom where there isn't any copy protection... You never know.

[Cap'n 1time]

Or it could turn out like the sega cd and pc engine cd rom where there isn't any copy protection... You never know.

as @$@! AWSOME as that would be, i doubt that will happen.

[Spark]

Well I think when the PSX/Saturn came out, both of them were protected against CDR duplicates, as CDR was a format that already existed. When the Sega CD was released, CDR was far from mainstream so protection probably wasn't deemed neccasary.

If this is a recordable form of UMD, then it's being launched after the PSP, meaning that there could be a chance of the current firmware versions containing no code to prohibit executables from launching from it.

[Onetonbullet]

Damn it guys....Listen:
That is not a UMD format.

[psplover]

It's not a UMD format but it works in the same slide cart system and with a hardware mod might be possable to be booted in PSP.

[Onetonbullet]

How do you figure? The link you posted is to a standard DVD sized blu ray disc....The protective cover is there because blu ray discs (of this type) are easily damaged...

http://www.pci-canada.com/XDCAM/imag...6160-small.JPG

http://www.pci-canada.com/XDCAM/imag...6184-small.JPG

Sorry

[psplover]

Ohh, 4 sources before this said they would have a minature series too :S Guess not. I however will still be buying a Blu ray burner. With TDK's new anti stratch technology do they really need protective cases?