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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. Re:Third post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Italian majors? LOL.

    If you are going to major in a language make sure it's actually useful like Chinese, Hindi, Arabic, Japanese even Spanish...but Italian? Only one country speaks Italian and no one gives a fuck about them anyways...

  2. Blue Ray? What about Z Ray? by smooth+wombat · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    As everyone knows, Z is two better than X. So where does the Blue fit in?

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    We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
  3. Re:I wonder by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm not even going to joke about this. Obvious troll. Don't click this. Oh god no.

  4. Spelling by ari_j · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I thought we were done spelling words incorrectly to make them cute. :/