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PS3 To Use Blu-Ray Technology
Daetrin writes "GameSpot has reported an announcement by Sony that the PlayStation 3 will use Blu-Ray technology, a next-generation optical disc format which 'can hold 25GB on a single layer and 50GB on the dual-layer discs', as many people have been speculating. What Sony hasn't said for sure is whether the PS3 will be backwards compatible with DVD movies and PS2 games. However, they indicated that they will reveal more details about the PlayStation 3 at a premiere in Japan on March 31st next year. (And, if nothing else, there will certainly be plenty of rumors before then.)"
Sony wouldn't do a proprietary thing, would they? Owning rights to all those movies and music are just tempting them to get back at the world for Betamax.
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on opposite sides of the disc?
IMHO, they will probably use the extra space to employ some sort of advanced encryption technique to deter hackers/etc from cracking their shizzle...or something.
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haven't the mpaa decided to go with hd-dvd? if so does this mean microsoft could position themselves to allow users to watch mainstream HD movies while ps3 can't?
Yup.
Sony just punched the entire HD world in the face. Due to the popularity of the playstation, everyone will be able to play blue-ray disks. This will be the new video format that will have market penetration and therefor drive new MOVIE disk sales.
You know all those dvds you have? (ive got about 300) You get to re-purchase all of those in HD on blue-ray.
Huzzah!
Although this means nothing if you dont have an HD-tv. Or, if you are a bargain hunter, youve got an awesome range of super-cheap dvds coming your way.
no
Shouldn't DVDs handle their games?
... like the old NeoGeo games.
I would think so. But now with increasing processor speeds and huge storage discs, they can bloat their games all they want, hire bad programmers with no concept of efficiency, and still come out ahead.
Honestly though, I could see selling an entire game pack for $500. "Buy the whole pack and never have to change the disc."
Also, it would be a great licensing scheme. There are lots of people who would like storage like that.
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I mean, can it grab more info in a given time span? Does it grab multiple layers or tracks in one rotation? Will it fill the data bus, and keep it full? Cause 50GB is a damn lot of loading otherwise. Seriously though, why do we constantly get disk drives that spin faster, why not just scan more tracks at once? I've keep hearing about bue ray from the perspective of data density, but not speed.
What are we going to do tonight Brain?
what's the read time on the bluray discs? the PS2 load times were atrocious enough. i don't want to feel like i'm back on my c64 where you had to go make a sandwich while waiting for your game to load.
R.I.P.
I'm still happy with DVD quality movies, thanks.
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In Japan it matters...space. One of the reasons XBox isn't doing well.
I actually just did a fresh WinXP install on my other box yesterday. It uses less than 2.5GB with all necessary updates installed (less Media Player 9, don't need it on that box).
Blu-ray discs are CURRENTLY in caddies. However, they don't have to be. Someone or other (sorry I can't be more specific) has recently come up with a coating for blu-ray discs that is as scratch resistant as a CD (woop de doo) yet useful in conjunction with blue lasers. There is no guarantee that by the time consumer-level blu-ray discs become ubiquitous we will be using them in caddies. I hope we are, though. It's worth the price.
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Also remember mini-discs? Sony wanted the playstation group to use them for memory cards but it never happened because they were afraid the size were to big.
However, the PS2 console does seem to use MemoryStick media in a different form factor for its memory cards, given that both PS2 and MemoryStick media use "MagicGate" DRM.
When the PS2 was announced, people said the same thing. The PS2 demo videos were the first truly "next-gen" 3d on the console anyone had seen. The argument surfaced that, due to the PS2's ability to push millions of polygons, no one would develop for it, as no sane developer would spend hours detailing the thousands of polygons that go into something simple, like a characters lips.
Well, guess what. Not only was this never a problem, many would argue that the PS2 doesn't push polygons.
Just like that new huge 12 gb harddrive you bought a few years back, PS3 developers will have no trouble filling up the Blu-Ray discs with content.
(From another point of view, even if it was prohibitively difficult to fill up the disc with content/media, who's forcing developers to use all 50 gb? A smaller game is the exact same thing they could develop for another system...)
Just as an example, we've got 3 PS2s in this house, and all 3 of them are used as DVD players as well, with one of them being used ONLY as a DVD player.
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
Normally I would mock someone for being upset at missing one song out of many, but I must agree with you - that's one of the best songs on the DDR series to start out with.
I've got a japanese version of DDR at home - can't remember the name, but it's got butterfly on it... (Thank god for mod chips)....
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