Blu-ray Not Big Enough?
Bigger than Blu-Ray? Hows 400GB sound? **Updated**Published 07/12/2008 at 13:41 by cc_star
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After a few weeks with no internet connection I’m now back and catching up on all things PS3. The question is: what to post first? After all, what’s news for me is probably just old stuff for TSA readers, so I have to be careful when snooping into the deepest darkest corners of the internet not to write about something everyone else knew about a fortnight ago.
I have been delighted to catch up on the PSN updates of 20/11 and 27/11, finding out that GAME have a rental service, and that Cb almost went literally ‘postal‘ on us. In the end I just decided to ease myself back in to my comfy TSA slippers with a bit of good old Cut and Paste.
Digital Spy are reporting that the PS3 will be able to support Pioneer’s newly developed 16 layer Blu-ray disk. “The company confirmed that all current Blu-ray players, such as the PlayStation 3, will be able to read the discs,” says the site. ”Although it is thought that the extra storage will mainly benefit higher definition films and TV series, the space can be put towards special features and uncompressed data in games.”
Whilst devs are hard at work optimising their code and data to squeeze on to DVDs for the 360, the PS3 & Blu-ray seem ready to expand to fit their needs. The disk are expected to appear from 2010, with 1TB disks following by 2013. Quite what anyone is going to do with all that space is anyone’s guess.
There, that wasn’t so bad. I might even do an original post later.
*Update*
Speaking to Edge, Pioneer said. “Current BD players and drives would not be able to read these discs,” the company said, adding that the technology is “at this time not being proposed as a candidate for addition to the existing Blu-ray Disc format.”
However, the company went on to say that a firmware upgrade may allow Blu-ray players to read the disc, putting Sony’s PS3 straight into the spotlight as the likeliest device available today that could read them.
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matty1209 | 07/12/2008 13:48
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woooo thats alot of space
Julzzey | 08/12/2008 09:42
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that is a shitt load of space holy crap and one terabyte HOLY..JESUS!! WHAT IS THAT!??
OHH YEAH and also they might rerelease MGS4 with all that shitt they couldent fit its pretty much imposible considering that it come out 2010 but eyah they might just do it cause i know id buy it and i have no money for that now NONE!
3shirts | 07/12/2008 13:55
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Hopefully the reduced need for optimisation will be a pro against the long list of cons we hear about for developing for PS3.
djhsecondnature | 07/12/2008 14:00
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Yeah. This boads so well for Playstation. As the new multilayered disc will work on current Blu-Ray players, the next Playstation will almost certainly use Blu-Ray and this could help solidify in people’s minds why Blu-ray is so good. The ability to expand a disc up to a terebyte as they say is just incredible.
CaptainMurdo | 07/12/2008 14:07
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Sounds great. You could put 2 or 3 games on a disc as well now.
djhsecondnature | 07/12/2008 14:57
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Or just bigger games? lol
Julzzey | 08/12/2008 09:43
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yeah man screw Orange box more like the valve pack from steam like 100 games and they’d all be like PS2 size lol
dyslekt | 07/12/2008 14:20
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sick….
tantalus_blank | 07/12/2008 14:23
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Eventually Microsoft is gonna want a bit of the ol’ blu-ray. Let’s see if Sony act like they did with their movie studio…
LiquescentShadow | 07/12/2008 14:49
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It will probably happen quite soon. All major film companies no longer release anything on HD DVD and have all switched to blu-ray. With games getting bigger and better Microsoft will have to do something unless they want to see their console dead in the water.
It’ll be interesting to see how it all plays out.
berto54 | 08/12/2008 00:05
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Which means that microsoft will throw a hilariously large amount of money at sony, never a bad thing for us lot
YOURMUMANDME | 07/12/2008 14:40
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A one terabyte disk !
Any news if they’re gonna bring out re-writeable versions ? That would be totally awesome !
LiquescentShadow | 07/12/2008 14:46
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Was just surfing the wikipedia knowledge wave when I cam across:
“In December 2008, Pioneer Corporation, had unveiled a 400GB Blu-ray disc, which contains 16 layers and will be compatible with current players after a firmware update. A planned launch is in the 2008-2010 time frame for ROM and 2010-2013 for a rewritable. An ongoing developement is under way to create a 1TB Blu-ray disc within the 2008-2013 time frame.”
So yes, it seems we will be seeing rewritable versions in the not too distant future!
Mike | 07/12/2008 17:08
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This will probably take around a week to write 1Tb of data to it though.
Julzzey | 08/12/2008 09:44
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yeah like MGS4 again with all tat shitt they couldent fit on the original blu-ray the game will have SOO much extra shitt in it
LiquescentShadow | 07/12/2008 14:40
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That’s impressive. Hopefully this will see more quality exclusives being released for PS3; the developers should start wondering why they are wasting time trying to compress code and data for the 360 in multi-platform releases when they can enter the blu-ray PS3 playground which doesn’t impose such restrictions. The devs can then spend more time making the game as good as it can be rather than wasting time with compression etc.
djhsecondnature | 07/12/2008 14:58
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Picking up on what CaptainMurdo said, they could release all of the current Final Fantasy games on a single disc…..*drolls*
YOURMUMANDME | 07/12/2008 15:26
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@ DJH
We can only hope !!!
Mind you , one big scratch and that’s like 18 games f*cked .
I’d even settle for backwards compatability for FFVIII , soooo annoying !!
P.S. R2 again tonight ? LOL
Gamoc | 07/12/2008 15:38
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I bet Hideo Kojima is pissed.
theshockwave | 07/12/2008 16:24
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Does Blu-ray belong to Sony. If so can they prevent the 360 using it?
colossalblue | 07/12/2008 16:31
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No, they invented it and then sold it to Toshiba but I think they still have a stake in it so it’s possible they could piss MS off a bit when they come crawling for a license.
theshockwave | 07/12/2008 16:34
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It really would screw MS over if they couldn’t get it.
Julzzey | 08/12/2008 09:46
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yeah its a trade mark like the sixth axis controller lol micrsft are either gonna die slowly or have to pay MILLIONS at sony which will only improve development
colossalblue | 07/12/2008 16:34
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I’m singing on the inside, CC is back and serving up the news,
I read this a couple of days ago in a list of headlines and passed it off as a typo so I didn’t actually read the story.
500GB is insane. Like, madder than a bag of squirrels. How could we fill that?
theshockwave | 07/12/2008 16:36
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I wonder how many GB the human brain can hold.
colossalblue | 07/12/2008 16:41
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I think mine holds about one and a half but needs to be frequently defragged and definitely cannot handle incremental backups.
Also, when I drink too much it seems to format some partitions and leave me with unrecoverable data.
Julzzey | 08/12/2008 09:47
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fugin mgs4 AGAIN or like a Orange box all ove again exept with lik every PS2 game ever lol imagine a demo disk with that disk HOLY SHITT
YOURMUMANDME | 07/12/2008 16:58
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Depending on the individual , the human brain based on the data of protein , can hold between 1 and 10 terabytes !!
But most likely 3 , that’s what I know .
I’m probaby the equivalent of a pen drive , don’t tell me something , I’ll forget my name !!!!
theshockwave | 07/12/2008 16:59
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Carrots are a good source of orange.
cc_star | 07/12/2008 17:11
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Mine is running MS Dos; No multi-tasking, I can only do one thing at once.
I often forget what I was doing or what I go into a room to fetch, and sometimes mid-sentence I completely forg…..
Roynaldo | 10/12/2008 15:14
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you remind me of me. its the green stuff u see! lol
YOURMUMANDME | 07/12/2008 17:12
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Sorry , how did I get here ?