Playstation 3 w/ Blu Ray reading technology

[Angel Tarragon]

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.

 

[driver8]

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.

 

[LightPhoenix]

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.

 

[Shard O'Glase]

still the PS2 announced spelcs and real specs were different so I take a wait and see policy with all there announcements.

 

[driver8]

Ahh but the plot thickens!! HD DVD gets three big studios to line up behind it:

http://dvd.ign.com/articles/569/569217p1.html

Also it seems weird that the PS3s chip is being developed by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM.

However, Toshiba and Sony are rivals in the HD-DVD/Blu-Ray format fight. Aint business kooky?

 

[Arnwyn]

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.

 

[Krieg]

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.

 

[Ranes]

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.

 

[Lazybones]

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.

 

[LightPhoenix]

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.