Playstation 3 w/ Blu Ray reading technology

Angel Tarragon

Dawn Dragon
I have read in the most current issue PC World that Sony is most likey going to have the Playstation 3 include the ability to read Blu_ray discs. Thought you guys would like to know this heads up.
 

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Not surprisong I guess since Sony is one of the many corporations in favor of Blu Ray. Such a statement is "preemptive" strike to stake out territory for the future.

But Blu Ray sounds cool.. and it will hopefully mean the PS3 will be backwards compatible.
 

driver8 said:
Not surprisong I guess since Sony is one of the many corporations in favor of Blu Ray. Such a statement is "preemptive" strike to stake out territory for the future.
BluRay was developed by Sony, AFAIK. So it's about as far away from surprising as one could get. :)
 



All pretty old news. Blu-ray for the PS3 was announced by Sony more than a month or two ago.

I'm all for it - especially if the "Xbox 2" will have HD-DVD. Then I'll have both. Sweet.
 

The thought of various moving studios splitting their releases between two competing media formats is not something that gives me a warm fuzzy.

I'm sure in the end we'll see dual format machines that will read both (and be backwards compatible with DVD & CD) but that still means increased cost.

Hopefully everyone involved comes to terms with a single format before it hits the market in a big way.
 

The vote of confidence the Hollywood studios have given to HD-DVD bodes ill for Sony, its PS3 and Blu-ray. The industry wants a single standard. This could cost Sony. If it does, it won't be the first time they've got their fingers burned. They were, of course, responsible for Betamax.
 

I'm not an expert, but I've read a number of articles on this and it seems that Blu-ray is the superior format (in terms of durability, quality of data, and capacity). Of course, Betamax was superior to VHS in this manner as well. Otherwise I agree that a format war will suck; hopefully we won't end up like we did with DVD-ROMs and all these different formats (at least THOSE were close enough so that a single machine could read multiple formats).

It seems that everything the media companies come up with ends up screwing the consumer. I'm sure in the corporate boardrooms they're outlining a legislative strategy that will have all content DRMed to prevent ANY copying, even time-shifting, and will have licenses that mandate payments whenever content is viewed. I'm already worried about what the broadcast flag will mean for the next generation of media devices.
 

Lazybones said:
I'm not an expert, but I've read a number of articles on this and it seems that Blu-ray is the superior format (in terms of durability, quality of data, and capacity).
There's no seeming about it, Blu-Ray is the superior format.

[EDIT] Also, what I see happening is that in the computer world, Blu-Ray will thrive, whereas the studios will adopt HD-DVD (for god only knows what reason).

It seems that everything the media companies come up with ends up screwing the consumer. I'm sure in the corporate boardrooms they're outlining a legislative strategy that will have all content DRMed to prevent ANY copying, even time-shifting, and will have licenses that mandate payments whenever content is viewed. I'm already worried about what the broadcast flag will mean for the next generation of media devices.
I don't know if I'm quite so cynical, however I don't doubt some sort of DRM will be involved, nor do I doubt that it will be cracked within six months. Not that I advocate piracy, just that the crackers seem to be quite a bit more up on the tech than the studios.
 
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