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Sony Adopts Blu-ray Disc PlayStation 3

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Blu-Ray Winning by Kenshin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Personally, I see this as the action that will establish BD-ROM as the leader of the next-gen disc formats.

    I don't know many people who will rush-out to buy a new DVD player to play HD movies, but EVERYONE is going to buy a PS3.

    With that installed base, it will be fairly easy to translate into the market for movies being sold in that format.

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    Does it make you happy you're so strange?

  2. if this is the case then I doubt ps3 in 05 by cyrax777 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Like people keep suggesting. More like late 06 early 07.

  3. MGM comes into the picture.. by voice+of+unreason · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Interesting. I think I'm starting to see Sony's strategy. They're rolling out a console that can probably play blu-ray DVD movies. They recently bought MGM, giving Sony the rights to rerelease all of MGM's movies on DVD. With PS3 to put players into the market, and with MGM movies to release, it sounds like sony has put a lot of thought into making their blu-ray standard a success.