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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. I wonder by JaffaKREE · · Score: 5, Interesting

    how badly a small scratch will affect these ? How much data redundancy is there ?

  2. backwards compatible by Tante · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Will this be compatible with all my PS2 games?

  3. backing up will still take 50 disks by davidwr · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In the days of 20MB hard disks, it took about 50 360KB floppies to back up a nearly-full disk, more or less.

    In the days of 40GB hard disks, it took 50 800MB CD-Rs.

    With 250GB systems, it takes about 50 4.7GB DVD-Rs.

    By the time 50-200GB burners are available for under $200 in 7-8 years, I'll probably be using 2.5-10TB systems at home, and the ratio will still be 50.

    I don't know about you, but 50 disk-swaps is several too many. Even with incremental or differential backups, it's a pain in the ***.

    Your disks-per-complete-backup ratio may not be 50 but it's probably fairly stable over time.

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