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PostPosted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 12:05 pm  Post subject: PS3: 23GB Blu-Ray Drive/Player confirmed
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PS3 to Include 23 Gb Drive
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A meeting held in Tokyo, this week, has offered some insight into Sony's plans for the DVD drive of the PS3. The meeting was held in order to decide the final specifications of a read-only Blu-Ray system and present were the big boys of the electronics industry, including Sony.

Blu-Ray is considered by many to be the next step in DVD technology as its use of a blue laser, to read and write data, provides increased accuracy when compared to the red laser currently used. In addition a single layer Blu-Ray disc will hold up to 27 Gb of data. Blu-Ray discs, until now, have been readable and writeable.

Sony has confirmed that it will utilize Blu-Ray on PS3, allowing the device to playback High Definition movies and giving developers more room to create next-generation games. Blu-Ray is backward compatible, so the drive is expected to handle standard DVD movies and PS2 games without causing the PS3 any problems.

Stand-alone Blu-Ray units are expected to launch by early 2005 and movies will migrate to the new format, gradually, over the next few years, so PS3 will be armed with a state of the art drive. Even though plans call for a 23 Gb capacity drive for PS3, it will still hold 5 times more data than current DVD discs.


Can't wait for Blu-Ray burners :)

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 12:14 pm  Post subject:
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it will be a hell to download a ps3 iso on 23gig.... and the burning must take 6 hours or so.... the future dont look to brigth, if we all dont get 100mbits connections soon...

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 12:19 pm  Post subject:
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The more the better... just pushes everything else to evolve. At least we are not still backing up data on cassettes. :lol:

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 12:34 pm  Post subject:
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it will be a hell to download a ps3 iso on 23gig.... and the burning must take 6 hours or so.... the future dont look to brigth, if we all dont get 100mbits connections soon...


Well the problem here is there's no chance in hell that anyone is going to fill that space with game, it will be all extras and media... infact it will only 'more bang than buck' companies that will utilize it... for example Square. Their games themselves aren't very big, its all the crap they shove in them, like FF is mostly FMV and sound.

I'm hoping that the space available doesn't promote sloppy programming, but it must be a fear for anyone that's looking for quality.

I expect rips will take these games down a peg or two, but the media will be filled up with textures, sound, and uncompressed/lowly compressed media of this kind which as we know, is one of the first things that gets the snip.

With gamecube isos, you can actually reduce 1.3GB ISOs to nothing, maybe 200mb or less depending on the game. They fill the rest of the iso up with junk and sometimes use this as piracy prevention.

Still, downloading 23GB for a mediocre game would not be an option for me, rent and copy will be all the scene... which is good in a way, at least companies get some money back for that. The problem is, with consoles its all damn licensing so it all goes back to Sony/Nintendo/M$, and then a huge chunk to the publisher, and then none to the developer who are the ones who really deserve it.

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 12:47 pm  Post subject:
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:wacky: there goes the HD :wacky:

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 12:55 pm  Post subject:
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na, HDD is good for interactivity. If sony are still trying to make a multimedia device, I wouldn't rule out a hdd. Still with m$ saying they're not fond of the idea, sony will probably follow suit.

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