Monday, August 16, 2004
PS3 To Use Blu-Ray Technology
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "NEWS" @ 11:00 AM
"According to Kyodo News, Sony officials announced today that they will use Blu-ray Disc technology in their next-generation console, most commonly referred to as the PlayStation 3. Sony revealed its decision at a press conference held by the Blu-ray Disc Founders (BDF), an organization committed to developing and standardizing the next-generation optical disc format. The BDF also used the occasion to announce that it will finalize the specifications for the read-only version of Blu-ray Discs (BD-ROMs) by September 30."
As you may already know from our many previous posts, Blu-ray technology supports 25GB on single layer and 50GB on the dual-layer discs, while HD DVD discs would hold only 30GB on a dual-layered disc. Sony will be revealing more details on the PlayStation 3 at a premiere event in Japan on March 31, 2005. It is cool to hear that Blu-ray technology will actually be used in a real world product, but I wonder what they will need at ultra capacity for. High quality games (even Doom 3) don't require as much space as that. I guess they are thinking of the PVR market? :?
As you may already know from our many previous posts, Blu-ray technology supports 25GB on single layer and 50GB on the dual-layer discs, while HD DVD discs would hold only 30GB on a dual-layered disc. Sony will be revealing more details on the PlayStation 3 at a premiere event in Japan on March 31, 2005. It is cool to hear that Blu-ray technology will actually be used in a real world product, but I wonder what they will need at ultra capacity for. High quality games (even Doom 3) don't require as much space as that. I guess they are thinking of the PVR market? :?
