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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:I wonder by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "Nobody will need more than 640K of RAM"

    - Bill Gates

  2. Shouldn't that be 54 GB of storage, not memory? by divisionbyzero · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Not to be pedantic...

  3. Surprise by Lord_Dweomer · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Wow, Sony chose to go with their own proprietary format for this. I thought this was a news site, not a "duh state the obvious" site.

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  4. Console format use != media dominance by dysk · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm still not convinced that they'd have any leverage in other media based markets because they use Blu-Ray in their consoles. Since it's unlikely that people will use PS3s to play their Blu-Ray movies, I don't see how using the media for games would make it any more dominant in other areas. It would be just as easy to buy an HD-DVD player when you have a Blu-Ray PS3 as it would be if you had an HD-DVD based PS3