starcraft on 12 November 2007
| MikeB said: @ starcraft And to address your earlier comment that Blu-Ray allows the streaming of more data than DVD (you were discussing memory, so I assume you meant simultaneously rather than 50gb to 9gb), the Xbox 360's DVD read speed can be optomised to 16X, whereas the PS3's BLu-Ray drive can only be optomised to 2X. Like was the case with regard to CD and DVD, 1X speed for a DVD isn' the same as 1X speed of a Blu-Ray drive. The XBox 360 DVD drive can read about 15 MB/s max but the average reading speed is much lower due to the outer rings containing more data than the inner rings, one circulation reads more data at the outer rings. Most PS2 and XBox 360 games are currently dual layer discs, all 16X DVD drives can read dual layer DVD at max 12X speed, on average that's significantly slower (a little more than 4MB/s for the inner rings) than the sustained reading speed of the PS3 Blu-Ray drive (9 MB/s). |
Way to selectively quote me Mike. For those of you following this conversation who weren't already aware, I qualified that statement immediately by acknowledging there are different methods of measurement for Blu-Ray read speeds(somewhere near the bottom of the last thread page). I say again Mike, you are at odds with testing and apparently a huge number of mainstream developers on almost everything you say. The read speeds of the 360's DVD drive and the PS3's Blu-Ray drive average out to a similar speed under testing and gaming conditions. The PS3's drive certainly doesn't sustain a regular read speed of 9MB/s, just as the 360's drive is not locked at a regular speed.
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