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green_box on 12 February 2009

Desperate situations need desperate measures..

The politics of sony is to give what Microsoft sells.

microsoft :

xbox live: 50us dollars

sony:

psnetworck: free

microsotf: 

movies HD; netflix or ms points

sony: 

free in the future games ..?

One wins and other one loses, the life is not just...

 

 

 

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Galaki on 12 February 2009

Does that mean the game portion will be reduced to 9GB?



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Lafiel on 12 February 2009
Tyrannical said:
Is blu-ray even big enough? First generation blu-ray movies were on a single layer 25gb discs, and the quality was inferior to HD-DVD. How much of the 50gb disc is a movie going to take?

 

first generation Blu-Rays used the outdated MPEG2 codec, which is why they looked worse than the HD DVD discs which used VC1 from the beginning, while BRs began to be encoded with VC1 2-3month after the first BRs released



KBG29 on 12 February 2009

Technically this is going to be very interesting. Most mulitiplatform games range between 4 to 6GBs, so with that Sony would have around 42 to 44GBs of space for the movie with 2GB for DRM. Now if we are talking a movie packed in with a true next gen game, then Sony may have to step up to 100GB Blu-ray discs. Thus leaving a 50/48/2 split between game/movie and DRM. This gets a thought spinning in my head.

Here is the perfect exicution;

Ratchet and Clank: Future 2 + The first ever Ratchet and Clank CGI movie October 2009

Combine a well known game franchise that takes full advantage of Blu-ray/PS3, and a movie style that is well recived in the mass market. Sounds like the ideal plan.



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Tyrannical on 12 February 2009
Lafiel said:
Tyrannical said:
Is blu-ray even big enough? First generation blu-ray movies were on a single layer 25gb discs, and the quality was inferior to HD-DVD. How much of the 50gb disc is a movie going to take?

 

first generation Blu-Rays used the outdated MPEG2 codec, which is why they looked worse than the HD DVD discs which used VC1 from the beginning, while BRs began to be encoded with VC1 2-3month after the first BRs released


I had forgotten that Microsoft's VC1 codec saved blu-ray.

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Branko2166 on 12 February 2009
Tyrannical said:
Lafiel said:
Tyrannical said:
Is blu-ray even big enough? First generation blu-ray movies were on a single layer 25gb discs, and the quality was inferior to HD-DVD. How much of the 50gb disc is a movie going to take?

 

first generation Blu-Rays used the outdated MPEG2 codec, which is why they looked worse than the HD DVD discs which used VC1 from the beginning, while BRs began to be encoded with VC1 2-3month after the first BRs released

 

I had forgotten that Microsoft's VC1 codec saved blu-ray.

lol sure they did.

It has absolutely no connection with every PS3 being a bluray player and being backed by the BDA.

/sarcasm

If Microsoft had their way both HD-DVD and Blu-ray would have failed.

 

 

 



 

 

Tyrannical on 12 February 2009

^---- It's kind of true.
Blu-ray took a lot of flak when it first released because HD-DVD had a better picture because it used a better codec.

It's tough to sell a more expensive player with an inferior picture. Blu-ray could have been dead by now if MS didn't license the VC1 codec.



Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
 — Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire

Sardauk on 12 February 2009

I'm not convinced...



 

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