Kutaragi Confirms End to Blue-Ray Talks

Posted by Zonk on Monday June 20, 2005 @09:25AM from the they-can't-get-along dept.

Ken Kutaragi, SCE President, confirmed that after a long period of talks Toshiba and Sony cannot see eye to eye on the next generation of DVD format. Blu-ray discs, then, will be the only supported format on the upcoming Playstation 3 console. From the article: "Negotiations began back in February, but the two companies failed to reach an agreement on storage capacities. Blu-Ray discs can hold 50GB of data while HD-DVD discs only hold 30GB, but the HD-DVD camp argues that lower manufacturing costs make for a cheaper, more consumer-friendly product."

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Re:What i never understood... by crow · 2005-06-20 09:42 · Score: 3, Informative

It's a matter of what's good enough.

At 30GB, you have enough for over three hours of HDTV, which means most movies, even with special features, won't need any more than that. Why use a more expensive format when you'll hardly ever need the extra space?

Of course, 50GB means each of the extended Lord of the Rings movies will fit on one disc, but the studios consider beaking movies of that length onto two discs to be reasonable.

Personally, I want the higher capacity, but I understand the support for HD-DVD.