thetonestarr said:
First off, that was Blu-Ray - not PS3. While the PS3 is capable of playing blu-ray discs, it's not necessarily going to be able to play ANY blu-ray disc. Besides not having the proper firmware (without an upgrade, of course), the hardware may require higher quality mechanics than the PS3 uses (although that is highly unlikely). Second off, it was 16 layers that Pioneer came up with - a 400GB disc. While there are plans to do as much as 40 layers, nothing greater than 16 layers has been produced yet.
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First off, don't come and question me then say something inaccurate.
Second. PS3 is a blu-ray player, and it is a higher end BD player. In fact it was praised as the best when it came out, for being cheap and allowing for future expansion with firmware upgrades. Older BD players did not have BD live so can not be updated to newer firmware, thus they may never be able to read BD discs of higher layers then what they allowed when made.
Third, layers on a BD disc and DVD disc are much different. A DVD disc, everytime a layer is added, the speed drops considerably. A dual layer DVD disc reads at 1.1 MB/s, while a single layer disc reads at 1.6 MB/s. Why is it you don't see triple layer and more on DVD? Speeds are under standards. BD is a straight on read, higher intensity, and way the layers are stacked, only loses a small amount of read speed per layer. 4.5 MB/s(1x) for a single layer, and 4.48MB/s for a dual layer. By the time it's 32 layers you would still have a theoritical read rate of 3.80MB/s.
Fourth, Pioneer engineered a 16 layer disc, and stated 32 layers would be able to be read on any current BD player with BD live or ability to update firmware.
