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NJ5 on 16 January 2010
lestatdark said:

It seems that most of you don't understand that uncompressed HD files (1280x720) can take up to 4 Gb per each hour in movies.

So 32 Gb, even if they aren't all uncompressed, amounts to 9 hours or so.

9 Hours for Cutscenes doesn't even amount 20% to the total amount of gameplay ;)

No, all the video on Blu-Ray is compressed, and the same thing goes for games. There isn't space or speed to store/read uncompressed movies.

Just for reference, uncompressed 1280x720 video at 24 fps would take up 63 megabytes per second, or 221 GB per hour!

 



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NiKKoM on 16 January 2010
blaydcor said:
Hmmm, so the volume of the cut content would have been, what, half a gig at most? Guess all the stupid "FF XIII was gimped cause of 360 version!!" idiots can shut up.

They will find another reason to say that... they always will..



 

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lestatdark on 16 January 2010
NJ5 said:
lestatdark said:

It seems that most of you don't understand that uncompressed HD files (1280x720) can take up to 4 Gb per each hour in movies.

So 32 Gb, even if they aren't all uncompressed, amounts to 9 hours or so.

9 Hours for Cutscenes doesn't even amount 20% to the total amount of gameplay ;)

No, all the video on Blu-Ray is compressed, and the same thing goes for games. There isn't space or speed to store/read uncompressed movies.

Just for reference, uncompressed 1280x720 video at 24 fps would take up 63 megabytes per second, or 221 GB per hour!

 

My bad then, but correct me if i'm wrong, but doesn't a Full HD Blu Ray movie of about 2 hours occupy the 25 Gb of Blu Ray space?

So, even if it's compressed 1280x720 video, 32 Gb should amount to something about 9 hours or so right? 



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kingofwale on 16 January 2010

wow, 6.8 GB of pure coding. That is something, how many lines of C++ is that? ;)

I see no problem at all, I am no expert programmer, and even I know that coding (text) isn't exactly storage-heavy



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NJ5 on 16 January 2010
lestatdark said:
NJ5 said:
lestatdark said:

It seems that most of you don't understand that uncompressed HD files (1280x720) can take up to 4 Gb per each hour in movies.

So 32 Gb, even if they aren't all uncompressed, amounts to 9 hours or so.

9 Hours for Cutscenes doesn't even amount 20% to the total amount of gameplay ;)

No, all the video on Blu-Ray is compressed, and the same thing goes for games. There isn't space or speed to store/read uncompressed movies.

Just for reference, uncompressed 1280x720 video at 24 fps would take up 63 megabytes per second, or 221 GB per hour!

 

My bad then, but correct me if i'm wrong, but doesn't a Full HD Blu Ray movie of about 2 hours occupy the 25 Gb of Blu Ray space?

So, even if it's compressed 1280x720 video, 32 Gb should amount to something about 9 hours or so right? 

That depends on the amount of compression. As you can see here, different movies use different bitrates:

http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=3338

It seems to be around 20-40 megabits/s (including the audio), which is around 13 GB/hour as you said. However I don't know if PS3 games use the same codecs/bitrates.

 



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NJ5 on 16 January 2010
kingofwale said:
wow, 6.8 GB of pure coding. That is something, how many lines of C++ is that? ;)

I see no problem at all, I am no expert programmer, and even I know that coding (text) isn't exactly storage-heavy

No, the 6.8 GB includes the textures, models, levels, game sounds and all that stuff. The executable code should take up a few MBs, no one has time to code 6.8 GB of executables ;)

 



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Beuli2 on 16 January 2010

This tells me a lot. I just raher watch a better movie. It's cheaper and shorter. After that, I'll play some Final Fantasy V, wich is much better of a game.



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Moren on 16 January 2010

I don't see that as bad if gameplay is longer that videos



luisgvm on 16 January 2010

so what if it has a lot of cgi and videos and stuff like that. i mean they look epic to me!!. FF13 FTW!!!.



lestatdark on 16 January 2010
NJ5 said:
lestatdark said:
NJ5 said:
lestatdark said:

It seems that most of you don't understand that uncompressed HD files (1280x720) can take up to 4 Gb per each hour in movies.

So 32 Gb, even if they aren't all uncompressed, amounts to 9 hours or so.

9 Hours for Cutscenes doesn't even amount 20% to the total amount of gameplay ;)

No, all the video on Blu-Ray is compressed, and the same thing goes for games. There isn't space or speed to store/read uncompressed movies.

Just for reference, uncompressed 1280x720 video at 24 fps would take up 63 megabytes per second, or 221 GB per hour!

 

My bad then, but correct me if i'm wrong, but doesn't a Full HD Blu Ray movie of about 2 hours occupy the 25 Gb of Blu Ray space?

So, even if it's compressed 1280x720 video, 32 Gb should amount to something about 9 hours or so right? 

That depends on the amount of compression. As you can see here, different movies use different bitrates:

http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=3338

It seems to be around 20-40 megabits/s (including the audio), which is around 13 GB/hour as you said. However I don't know if PS3 games use the same codecs/bitrates.

 

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