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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. As space available goes up by suso · · Score: 0, Troll

    ... quality goes down.

    Heck, Screenshots of all the Below the Root screens for the C64 took up 4 times more space in png format than 2 5.25" floppy discs could hold. What have we come to?