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

A modernized Streets of SimCity. :)

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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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Re:54GB by Walt+Dismal · 2004-09-22 07:16 · Score: 4, Funny

Now I can stop worrying about archiving my pRoN collection.