Sony had 'no choice' but to include Blu-ray in PS3

[joeorc]

bdbdbd said:
It was very stupid for Sony (in terms of games division) to put the BD to PS3. Kaz of course is doing PR work and trying to make some sense for the public for the decision.

@Joeorc: I think you lost me too. The filmmakers already have a platform to film on atleast for the next two decades; the 35mm film.

That's why you see the HD releases of decades old films, since it's easy to scan the films to lower resolutions, such as 1080.

darthdevidem01 said:

Bladeforce said:
It's also the reason why PS3 will fail

Hasn't the PS3 "failed" since summer 2007?

I mean how many times can it fail......it must be making a record for the number of times a console can "fail"

According to people PS3 failed in 2007, then 2008 holidays, now in 2009 its a failure

so its failed around 3 times so far!

Well yeah, but that's nothing compared to how many times Wii has been doomed, no matter what happens.

I am sorry if i am not being clear enough, the bit rate is one of the big problems with DVD vs Blu-Ray and HD DVD both HD DVD and Blu-Ray could support the higher Bit Rate that DVD could not.

AS for Digital Downloads being the future over Optical Medium's in a short time from now. That is a MYTH and Digital Downloads is great for Music and almost anyform of Data , but on the same token the advancement of fast digital download speed's are not going happen or to be as fast as some of you might think for one right now for the most part the network capacity broadband cap. more and more ISP companies are already putting a CAP on how much people will be able to download in any month, that will prob. be more and more of a problem as we move forward because the growth will far outstrip the stability of the SERVER's traffic stability and its capability to handle the traffic. there will be just like there is now area's that do not even have access to broadband you have to use diaup, or satalite or 3G  just to have internet . that's going to Take soem time. The Digital Download will be the future yes but no where near as fast as some may think ESP. in the UNITED STATES one of the slowest to advance in the network infrastructure needed for such to be a full replacement for Optical Medium . Which most likely never happen anyway DUE to the fact that as long as DVD's stay popular with the majority of consumer's the more likely the consumer's will stick with DVD which also will include Blu-Ray because ALL Blu-Ray player's ALSO PLAY STANDARD DVD's.

 

the NEXT optical format would Be HOLOGRAPHIC which Blu-Ray already is. despite the many ANTI-Blu-Ray pundant's Blu-Ray is The Standard that the largest Optical drive companies have decided to support Blu-Ray and the Price of Blu-Ray has dropped to the point Now it's getting near mass market price point. by 2013 it will be at DVD price point. and for those that think Digital Download's will outstrip physical media by that point will be Quite mistaken Digital Downloads Market share will not outstrip physical medium "when it come's to movies" because of the simple fact STANDARD DVD will still have the largest market for movies market share even over Blu-Ray, and Digital Downloads will not have greater market share than Blu-Ray because the infrastructure for NETWORK's will still not be robust enough even by 2013 its just not going to happen, Physical media for the near future is still going to be the main distribution method for Movies over DIGITAL DOWNLOADS, Blu-Ray still Play's STANDARD DVD's and will keep doing so. So unless vast majority of people stop buying DVD's Digital Downloads will be the Niche not Physical Medium's.

this apply's mainly to MOVIES and Games Music is a whole story in of itself.

AS for Blu-Ray being the main cost increase of the PS3...no its not not even close, the big cost was mainly due to the Cell  an the cost of  GPU never mind the cost increase of the heatsink and Fan ..that was a big cost in of itself. yes the Blu-Ray drive was a cost increase but not as much as many people think . the main cost increas is because of the overall cost of the component's in the PS3, If any thing Blu-Ray's cost is not that much of an added cost even if sony did not use Blu-Ray the cost of the PS3 would have still been high over $400.00  anyway.