WilliamWatts said:
If they went for a unique variant of Blu Ray they could play the movies back but limit their exposure to royalties and the effect of piracy on the discs. Alternatively they can use the Blu Ray 'drive' but not actually pay money for playback and make the end user activate it and further reduce the royalties paid per console. |
Why stop there? The Sony/Panasonic update allowed for 33GB Blu Ray discs by increasing the number of tracks however if they went for a variant with a lower wavelength laser (towards ultraviolet) they can fit more information in per track at a higher density and thereby increase the overall read speed at any speed the drive spun at. In addition to this it would be impossible to burn a disc in a conventional drive to match.
So for example, the PS3 drive reads at 9 MB/s (72Mbps/8) or 4.5MB/S per 1x speed of the drive. If they had 1/3rd more data per track they could infact read at 6MB/s per 1x and a 6x or 8x drive would read at 36 or 48MB/S which makes it viable again for them to go without a HDD on an 'Arcade' SKU again if they wanted to and enable them to stream off and use true next generation high definition assets far better than current generation consoles.
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