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Encyclopedia > Nuon

Nuon is a technology that adds additional features to a DVD player. In addition to viewing DVDs, one can play 3D video games and use enhanced DVD navigational tools such as zoom and smooth scanning of DVD video. One could also play CDs while the Nuon graphics processor generates synchronized graphics on the screen. There were plans to provide Internet access capability in the next generation of Nuon-equipped DVD players. Image File history File links NUON_logo. ... The inside of a DVD player A DVD player is a device not only playing discs produced under the DVD Video standard but also playing discs under the standard of DVD Audio. ... Size comparison: A 12 cm Sony DVD+RW and a 19 cm Dixon Ticonderoga pencil. ... This article is about computer and video games. ...

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Nuon as DVD Format

The Nuon platform was primarily marketed as an expanded DVD format. A large majority of Nuon players that were sold in fact resembled typical consumer DVD players with the only noticeable difference being a Nuon logo. Nuon players offered a number of features that were not available on other DVD players when playing standard DVD-formatted titles. These included very smooth forward and reverse functionality and the ability to smoothly zoom in and out of sections of the video image. In addition, Nuon provided a software platform to DVD authors to provide interactive software like features to their titles.


Nuon as Gaming Platform

Nuon originally started off as "Project X," and was featured in EGM's 1999 Video Game Buyer's Guide. One of the Nuon's main software developers was Jeff Minter, who created a version of Tempest (entitled Tempest 3000) for the system, and the built-in VLM-2 audio visualizer. Jeff Minter at Assembly 2004 Jeff Yak Minter (born in Reading, April 22, 1962) is a British computer/video game designer and programmer. ... Tempest 3000 is a remake of the Tempest game, and a sequel to Tempest 2000, written by Jeff Minter for Nuon. ... VLM aka Virtual Light Machine is a lightsynth used on the Atari Jaguar & Nuon systems. ...


There were few games released, and the graphics technology placed the visual quality of the Nuon games somewhere between the PlayStation/Nintendo 64 and the Sega Dreamcast[citation needed]. The NUON was touted as a powerful chipset--However, its potential never had the chance to be realized and was only truly evident in Tempest 3000[citation needed]. The Sony PlayStation ) is a video game console of the 32/64-bit era, first produced by Sony Computer Entertainment in the mid-1990s. ... The Nintendo 64 ), often abbreviated as N64, was Nintendos third home video game console for the international market. ... The Dreamcast , code-named Dural, Dricas and Katana during development) is Segas fifth and final video game console and the successor to the Sega Saturn. ... Tempest 3000 is a remake of the Tempest game, and a sequel to Tempest 2000, written by Jeff Minter for Nuon. ...


Models

In North America, Nuon was used in the Samsung DVD-N501 & DVD-N2000 models, they also released several models in other parts of the world which are DVD-N504 (Europe), DVD N505 (Europe) & DVD-N591 (Korea) and a Toshiba DVD player & 2 RCA which are the DRC300N & DRC480N. The Nuon was also used in Motorola's Streamaster 5000 "Digital DNA" set-top box. However the format has appeared to have died off. As of November 2004, there are no Nuon enabled DVD players shipping and no new Nuon software titles. Samsung Group is one of the largest South Korean business groupings. ... Toshiba Corporations headquarters (Center) in Hamamatsucho, Tokyo Toshiba Corporation sales by division for year ending March 31, 2005 Toshiba Corporation ) (TYO: 6502 ) is a Japanese multinational conglomerate manufacturing company, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. ... RCA, formerly an acronym for the Radio Corporation of America, is now a trademark owned by Thomson SA through RCA Trademark Management S.A., a company owned by Thomson. ... Motorola Inc. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Peripherals and Accessories

Peripherals for Nuon-enhanced DVD players included the following:

  • Logitech Gamepad
  • Pro-elite controller
  • Stealth controller
  • Warrior Digital-D pad
  • controller extension cable
  • port replicator to move the Nuon ports to anywhere desired

Bankruptcy of VM Labs

NUON was created by VM Labs who filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2001. The rights to the NUON technology was purchased in 2002 by Genesis Microchip [citation needed]. VM Labs was the company behind the Nuon technology which was used in several DVD players from Samsung, Toshiba, & RCA. The Nuon technology bought features which other DVDs players didnt have at the time, this was around mid 2000, such as playing games created for Nuon, VLM (Virtual... Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code governs the process of reorganization under the bankruptcy laws of the United States. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...


Released Movies

Only four DVD releases utilized NUON technology:

  1. Planet of the Apes
  2. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
  3. Bedazzled
  4. Dr. Dolittle 2

This article is about the 2001 film. ... The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension or just Buckaroo Banzai is a cult film released in 1984, starring Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Christopher Lloyd, and Jeff Goldblum. ... Bedazzled is a 2000 motion picture, and is a remake of the original Bedazzled (1967) originally written by Peter Cook. ... Dr. Dolittle 2 is an American comedy film, the theatrical sequel to Dr. Dolittle. ...

Unreleased Movies

  1. Galaxy Quest
  2. Stigmata
  3. Toxic Avenger

This article or section contains a plot summary that is overly long or excessively detailed compared to the rest of the article. ... Stigmata is a controversial movie directed by Rupert Wainwright that premiered on September 10, 1999. ... The Toxic Avenger, first released in late 1984, is the most famous movie made by Troma Entertainment, known for producing low budget B-movies with campy concepts. ...

Released Games

Eight games were released for the NUON:

  1. Tempest 3000
  2. Freefall 3050 A.D.
  3. Merlin Racing
  4. Space Invaders X.L.
  5. Iron Soldier 3 (later recalled due to incompatibility with some players)
  6. Ballistic (only available with Samsung players)
  7. The Next Tetris (only available with Toshiba players)
  8. Crayon Shin Chan 3 (Korean-only release)

Tempest 3000 is a remake of the Tempest game, and a sequel to Tempest 2000, written by Jeff Minter for Nuon. ... Space Invaders is an arcade video game designed by Tomohiro Nishikado in 1978. ... The Next Tetris is a tetromino based puzzle video game released for the Playstation by Hasbro based on the popular Tetris games. ...

Unreleased games

  1. aMaze
  2. Atari's Greatest Hits
  3. Battleship: Surface Thunder
  4. Boggle
  5. Breakout
  6. Bugdom
  7. Bust-A-Move 4
  8. Dragon's Lair
  9. Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp
  10. The Game of Life
  11. Hoyle Card Games
  12. Jeopardy
  13. Knockout Kings
  14. Madden NFL Football
  15. Monopoly
  16. Myst
  17. Native II
  18. Need For Speed II
  19. New Scrabble
  20. Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure
  21. Pong
  22. RC de Go!
  23. Risk 2
  24. Riven
  25. Shanghai: Mahjongg Essentials
  26. Sorry!
  27. Space Ace
  28. Speedball 2100
  29. Spider-Man
  30. Star Trek: Invasion
  31. Tiger Woods PGA Golf
  32. Wheel of Fortune
  33. Yahtzee
  34. zCards

Bugdom and the sequel Bugdom 2 are third-person action/arcade game made by Pangea Software. ... Puzzle Bobble 4 is the third sequel to Puzzle Bobble and the final appearance of the series on the Sony PlayStation generation of consoles. ... Dragons Lair was one of the first laserdisc video games, released in June 1983 by Cinematronics. ... The Game of Life is a board game originally created in 1861 by Milton Bradley as The Checkered Game of Life. ... Knockout Kings is a boxing game that was produced by EA Sports for the PlayStation in 1998. ... Madden NFL is an American football video game series developed by Electronic Arts Tiburon for EA Sports. ... Monopoly is the best-selling commercial board game in the world. ... Myst (or MYST) is a graphic adventure computer game designed and directed by the brothers Robyn and Rand Miller. ... For other uses, see Pong (disambiguation). ... Riven is the sequel to the highly successful computer game Myst. ... Space Ace is a Laserdisc video game produced by Don Bluth Studios, Cinematronics, and RDI Video Systems. ...

Collections and Samplers

  1. Interactive Sampler (three different versions)
  2. NUON Games + Demos (collection from NUON-Dome)
  3. NUON-Dome PhillyClassic 5 Demo Disc (giveaway collection)

Homebrew Development

During late 2001, VM Labs released a homebrew SDK which allowed people to be able to program apps/games for their NUON system. Unfortunately, only the Samsung DVD-N501/DVDN504/DVDN505 and RCA DRC300N/DRC480N can load homebrew games. The Samsung DVDN-2000 and the Toshiba cannot[citation needed]. Curiously, the RCA DRC300N and RCA DRC480N cannot play commercial NUON games[citation needed]. Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... Homebrew is an album by Paul Lansky. ... A Software Development Kit, or SDK for short, is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, operating system or similar. ...


Homebrew Releases

Several homebrew titles have been created for or ported to NUON. They are not commercially available and require the user to burn the material to a NUON-compatible CD-R.

  1. Ambient Monsters
  2. Atari / C64 Video Game Music Player
  3. Atari 800 Emulator
  4. Atari 2600 PacMan (hacked version of VLM's Chomp)
  5. BOMB
  6. Breakout
  7. Chomp (sample game included with the second NUON SDK)
  8. Decaying Orbit (port of the Yaroze game)
  9. Doom (port of the shareware edition)
  10. PacMan - Tournament Edition (hacked version of VLM's Chomp)
  11. SameGame - Colors
  12. SameGame - Shapes
  13. Sheshell's Sea Adventure
  14. Snake
  15. Synth Demo
  16. Yaroze Classics (features Katapila, Invs & BreakDown)

C-64 redirects here. ... Atari built a series of 8-bit home computers based on the MOS Technology 6502 CPU, starting in 1979. ... This computer game has been incorrectly referred to or categorized with the PC game misnomer. ... A Software Development Kit, or SDK for short, is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, operating system or similar. ... Net Yaroze Net Yaroze (yarozei, or phonetically ya row zey vb. ... This article is about the game. ... Look up shareware in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Same Game running on GNOME Same Game for Mac OS 9 SameGame is a puzzle game originally invented as Chain Shot! in 1985 by Kuniaki Moribe (Morisuke), which was distributed for Fujitsu FM-8/7 series in a Japanese monthly personal computer magazine called The game was afterwards re...

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The Mysteries About NUON Revealed (1513 words)
Nuon is a fairly transparent extension of current capabilities that are designed to take the usability of the medium on step further instead of limiting it.
Since Nuon players are sold at the same price as regular DVD players, there is no premium for all these capabilities.
Nuon has a promising future, but only if those in charge have a true vision for it.
Nuon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (419 words)
Nuon was a technology that adds additional features to a DVD player.
In North America, Nuon was used in two Samsung DVD-N501 and DVD-N2000 models, they also released several models in other parts of the world which are DVD-N504 (Europe), DVD N505 (Europe) and DVD-N591 (Korea) and a Toshiba DVD player and 2 RCA which are the DRC300N and DRC480N.
NUON was created by VM Labs who filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2001.
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