Sony Adopts Blu-ray Disc PlayStation 3

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Sony Adopts Blu-ray Disc PlayStation 3

Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 22, 2004 @06:50AM from the take-that-other-formats dept.

fenimor writes "Sony announced today that it had begun preparations to adopt Blu-ray Disc ROM (BD-ROM) format as a medium for the next generation PlayStation. Single side double layer Blu-Ray discs have a huge memory size of 54 GB, being an ideal medium to distribute next generation entertainment content from movies and music to computer applications. Next month Sony plans to announce a 200GB 8-layer version of BD-ROM according to MacWorld."

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Now all we need... by ackthpt · 2004-09-22 06:54 · Score: 5, Funny

Now all we need is some decent games. It would be very cool if Sony would direct some of their lucre towards obtaining rights to M.U.L.E. and Mail Order Monsters and put them on this system.
with all that storage they could make the planet Irata truly shine...

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Re:I wonder by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-22 06:54 · Score: 1, Funny

I'm not 100% sure but I think the BD discs are contain within a magazine.
Fuzzy Logic. by Carik · 2004-09-22 06:54 · Score: 2, Funny

Does anyone else keep reading "Blu-Ray" as "BluRry"?
54GB by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-22 06:55 · Score: 3, Funny

size of 54 GB, being an ideal medium to distribute next generation entertainment content from movies and music to computer applications.

Yes, that allows a lot of bloat for computer applications. Windows anyone? Sorry.
1. Re:54GB by Paulrothrock · 2004-09-22 07:00 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Just like AOL. Remember when that came on a floppy.
  And even if you didn't *want* AOL, at least you could reuse the floppy.
  </crotchety bastard>
  
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2. Re:54GB by Walt+Dismal · 2004-09-22 07:16 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Now I can stop worrying about archiving my pRoN collection.
BD-RW by elcheesmo · 2004-09-22 06:56 · Score: 3, Funny

I just want to know when I can get a BD-RW off of newegg.
Think I maybe by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-22 06:57 · Score: 1, Funny

have dyslexia you that.
Re:I wonder by grub · 2004-09-22 07:03 · Score: 5, Funny

I mean, let's have higher resolution FMV's! Crisp! Less artificing. But seriously, the game itself -- Do you suppose they'll ever make a 50 gigabyte PS3 game?

It's not just about games. Once the Blu-Ray readers are more common and available for a few hundred bucks for your AV rack you'll see the push to re-buy the movies you've already bought on VHS and DVD.

"Star Wars Special BluRay Edition in 300 channel THX certified blah blah blah" (and Greedo will still shoot first in that release)

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anti-piracy by alatesystems · 2004-09-22 07:04 · Score: 3, Funny

If they really want to stop piracy, they should do what Sega did with the dreamcast, using a non-standard format, the gd-rom.

It will be impossible for people to burn those other formats.

Chris
I want to see... by Short+Circuit · 2004-09-22 07:06 · Score: 4, Funny

A modernized Streets of SimCity. :)

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Re:I wonder by Laur · 2004-09-22 07:06 · Score: 3, Funny

Right.. the manufacturers have never dreamed that a disc would be scratched. They build so much data correction into these things it's a non-issue.
Don't rent DVDs much do you?

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Finally! by Dark+Paladin · 2004-09-22 07:13 · Score: 5, Funny

Square-Enix can finally achieve the dream of turning Final Fantasy XIV into nothing more than a 50 hour movie with save spots in between!

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1. Re:Finally! by miTTio · 2004-09-22 07:30 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Namco beat them to it. Ever played Xenosaga?
2. Re:Finally! by Zcipher · 2004-09-22 08:44 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Actually, what I'd really like is for them to take that extra space and use it to include the original japanese voice acting. I cannot stress enough how much this would improve the game. Simply put, American voice actors are, with very few exceptions, terrible. As in, like a thousand needles in my spine. Restoring the original, non-awful voice acting would be the best use of additional space.
Re:I wonder by Zorilla · 2004-09-22 07:18 · Score: 3, Funny

Or, maybe they'll start using some sort of caddy...

*click*.....*click*.......*click*...

Damn...

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Re:I wonder by nempo · 2004-09-22 07:27 · Score: 2, Funny

I guess that you've never played a final fantasy game have you ? ;D

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Re:recordable bd-rom for pc? by captainClassLoader · 2004-09-22 07:31 · Score: 2, Funny

Perfect storage indeed - And it will only take a mere 4 or 5 of these discs to hold MS Office '07 when it comes out!... ;-)

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Re:As space available goes up by mr_spatula · 2004-09-22 07:37 · Score: 2, Funny

Insightful? That's not even a valid comparison.

The individual sprites were very, very small... A c64 game wouldn't keep each individual background as a single file, it was building these from indexed sprites, most likely 2-4 bits of color (not sure of the specifics)

Point being, you have a bunch of 256 byte sprites that are repeadedly being drawin on the screen... The instructions to "draw this sprite again" are quite a bit smaller...

oh, hell... you were being funny weren't you? (*smacks self on head*) Thanks, mods!
Re:I wonder by Neon+Spiral+Injector · 2004-09-22 07:53 · Score: 3, Funny

Well you don't technically play FF games, it is more like watching them.
Re:Don't forget about the drives! by cortana · 2004-09-22 08:36 · Score: 2, Funny

Yes, yes we are.

Judging from the experiences of the gamers I know, the reason the PS2 is the most popular console is because EVERYBODY HAS TO BUY BLOODY THREE OF THEM!
Re:backwards compatible by xjerky · 2004-09-22 08:41 · Score: 2, Funny

Ebay?

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Re:M$ supports HD-DVD, no word yet on Blu-Ray by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-22 09:18 · Score: 1, Funny

You don't get laid much, do you?
Re:PS3 Hard Disk Speculation by MikeBabcock · 2004-09-22 09:54 · Score: 2, Funny

Personally I'd love to see Sony just use Memory Stick Pro or something for their memory format instead of another proprietary format.

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