PS3 to have an inferior BR drive not built to final BR specs........

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#1 XanaduTheBand
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(partially taken from another post of mine in a differnt topic)

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 Since cows are the masters of speculation without facts and think it's fair game, I'll do a little of my own (drawn from history). My problem lies with Sony putting a non-finalized format in the PS3. We don't even know which drive is going into the PS3. If it's a 1st gen or even a 2nd gen drive (as it most likely will be) then expect both problems with the initial hardware and problems with finalization of the format. Hell, DVD took a long time out in the market (with record growth no less) to come to it's final form of standardization. Why do you think that my old 1st gen DVD player won't read dual-layered discs and doesn't like some new movies. Do you honestly think that BR will stay the way it is right now? Cows, if sony does give you a drive in your launch PS2's that within a few years doesn't play standardized BR well, what will you say?

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oh well8)
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#3 type_v_basic
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1. How does that affect gameplay?

2. How did that slow down the ps2?

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Bluray > dvd
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After watching too much good anime and movies of 1980-2002

I have no interest in Movies or Any watchable media anymore.

unless it is really really really really really good.

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1. How does that affect gameplay?

2. How did that slow down the ps2?

type_v_basic

1. I never mentioned gameplay other than the fact that PS3 discs won't be able to utilize the full capacity of the medium due to being stuck with inferior drives.

2. The PS2 used a a DVD drive when DVD was already out on the market for many many years. In contrast, BR will almost launch with the PS3.... early adopters always bear the cost and heaches of new technoogly. Thank you Cows. :lol:

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2. The PS2 used a a DVD drive when DVD was already out on the market for many many years. In contrast, BR will almost launch with the PS3.... early adopters always bear the cost and heaches of new technoogly. Thank you Cows. :lol:

You do realize that BD has been out for  a while now right?

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2. The PS2 used a a DVD drive when DVD was already out on the market for many many years. In contrast, BR will almost launch with the PS3.... early adopters always bear the cost and heaches of new technoogly. Thank you Cows. :lol:

viciousnip

You do realize that BD has been out for  a while now right?

There's not one BR movie...:|

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#11 El_Indigo
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[QUOTE="viciousnip"]

2. The PS2 used a a DVD drive when DVD was already out on the market for many many years. In contrast, BR will almost launch with the PS3.... early adopters always bear the cost and heaches of new technoogly. Thank you Cows. :lol:

Puckhog04

You do realize that BD has been out for  a while now right?

There's not one BR movie...:|

....rewritable discs......:|

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#12 viciousnip
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[QUOTE="viciousnip"]

2. The PS2 used a a DVD drive when DVD was already out on the market for many many years. In contrast, BR will almost launch with the PS3.... early adopters always bear the cost and heaches of new technoogly. Thank you Cows. :lol:

Puckhog04

You do realize that BD has been out for  a while now right?

There's not one BR movie...:|

FYI... it's BD(Blu-ray Disc)  not BR according to BDA (Blu-ray Disc Association).

I know that there isn't any BD movies out or BD movie players out. 

I was just talking about the BD recorders and drives in general. 

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Although you didn't provide a real link, you are correct. Every optical drive starts with CLV or constant linear velocity drives and then progresses to CAV or constant angular velocity.

CLV is good at reading data in adjacent sectors, however when data is scattered all over the disk (as is the case with games) there is a whole lot of slowdown due to poor seek times. CAV does not have this problem.

Both the sega CD and the PSP had CLV drives, and they have both demonstrated poor loading times. The good news is, PS3 games won't be on blu ray. They will be on DVD, just like xbox 360 games. They will not be on blu ray because of the poor seek times from the CLV blu ray drive.
TRega123

i wouldnt be surprised that when they DID go on bluray thy would go on the worst type, maybe 15-20 gigs.

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#15 viciousnip
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[QUOTE="viciousnip"]

2. The PS2 used a a DVD drive when DVD was already out on the market for many many years. In contrast, BR will almost launch with the PS3.... early adopters always bear the cost and heaches of new technoogly. Thank you Cows. :lol:

TRega123

You do realize that BD has been out for a while now right?

However, by the time the PS2 came out, they had developed CAV DVD drives. The ps3 will have a CLV blu ray drive which is not good for reading data scattered all over the disk (like games).

I believe they have a BD  CAV drive already...

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2. The PS2 used a a DVD drive when DVD was already out on the market for many many years. In contrast, BR will almost launch with the PS3.... early adopters always bear the cost and heaches of new technoogly. Thank you Cows. :lol:

viciousnip

You do realize that BD has been out for a while now right?


:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

i am convinced that cows have no brains :lol:

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#17 skektek
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[QUOTE="type_v_basic"]

1. How does that affect gameplay?

2. How did that slow down the ps2?

XanaduTheBand

1. I never mentioned gameplay other than the fact that PS3 discs won't be able to utilize the full capacity of the medium due to being stuck with inferior drives.

2. The PS2 used a a DVD drive when DVD was already out on the market for many many years. In contrast, BR will almost launch with the PS3.... early adopters always bear the cost and heaches of new technoogly. Thank you Cows. :lol:


The first DVD player was available 4 years before the release of the PS2. The first Blu-ray recorder was available back in '03, 3 years before the launch of the PS3. 3 years vs 4 years. Not exactly a huge difference.
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Who cares? We will still have it, it will benefit the games, because they can work around stuff to make it perform well for the system, even if it is going to be faster later in life, it doesn't matter, The thing is we will have it, and you lemmings wont. lol lemmings just give up, you can't win.
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#20 viciousnip
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[QUOTE="skektek"] [QUOTE="XanaduTheBand"][QUOTE="type_v_basic"]

1. How does that affect gameplay?

2. How did that slow down the ps2?

TRega123

1. I never mentioned gameplay other than the fact that PS3 discs won't be able to utilize the full capacity of the medium due to being stuck with inferior drives.

2. The PS2 used a a DVD drive when DVD was already out on the market for many many years. In contrast, BR will almost launch with the PS3.... early adopters always bear the cost and heaches of new technoogly. Thank you Cows. :lol:


The first DVD player was available 4 years before the release of the PS2. The first Blu-ray recorder was available back in '03, 3 years before the launch of the PS3. 3 years vs 4 years. Not exactly a huge difference.

However, the technology has not improved to a point where CAV drives are available. Time probably isn't the best way to measure technology growth.

Sony had displayed a blue-laser cav drive in 2003.  It was for commercial use only though...

let me try to look up dome BD recorder specs, and see if they are all CLV..

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[QUOTE="viciousnip"]

2. The PS2 used a a DVD drive when DVD was already out on the market for many many years. In contrast, BR will almost launch with the PS3.... early adopters always bear the cost and heaches of new technoogly. Thank you Cows. :lol:

Puckhog04

You do realize that BD has been out for a while now right?

There's not one BR movie...:|

But there is HD-DVD p0rn already :P:lol::lol::lol:
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[QUOTE="Cgi-Chris"]Who cares? We will still have it, it will benefit the games, because they can work around stuff to make it perform well for the system, even if it is going to be faster later in life, it doesn't matter, The thing is we will have it, and you lemmings wont. lol lemmings just give up, you can't win. TRega123
It will not benefit the games. No games will use it because of horrible seek times.

Take a look at blu ray drives  seek time and access time  and then at dvd drives  seek time and  access time.....

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Well I'm not getting 360 or PS3 but I want HD-DVD to win this fight because BD are supposed to have excess DRM which is why Ms wouldn't support them and which is why Sony are all for them (recent rootkit CD's were just the start of there DRM plans).  DRM is bad for consumers and regardless of the support for BD from movie companies etc..., consumers should choose HD-DVD if this DRM crap is real.
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#27 viciousnip
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[QUOTE="viciousnip"]

2. The PS2 used a a DVD drive when DVD was already out on the market for many many years. In contrast, BR will almost launch with the PS3.... early adopters always bear the cost and heaches of new technoogly. Thank you Cows. :lol:

clearman90

You do realize that BD has been out for a while now right?


:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

i am convinced that cows have no brains :lol:

Maybe a little research on your part would help.

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#28 El_Indigo
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Well I'm not getting 360 or PS3 but I want HD-DVD to win this fight because BD are supposed to have excess DRM which is why Ms wouldn't support them and which is why Sony are all for them (recent rootkit CD's were just the start of there DRM plans).  DRM is bad for consumers and regardless of the support for BD from movie companies etc..., consumers should choose HD-DVD if this DRM crap is real. brim4brim

Both formats have them

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#29 Dragondudefla
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[QUOTE="clearman90"]

2. The PS2 used a a DVD drive when DVD was already out on the market for many many years. In contrast, BR will almost launch with the PS3.... early adopters always bear the cost and heaches of new technoogly. Thank you Cows. :lol:

viciousnip

You do realize that BD has been out for a while now right?


:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

i am convinced that cows have no brains :lol:






Yes, it's been out for a while now in Japan.
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[QUOTE="brim4brim"]Well I'm not getting 360 or PS3 but I want HD-DVD to win this fight because BD are supposed to have excess DRM which is why Ms wouldn't support them and which is why Sony are all for them (recent rootkit CD's were just the start of there DRM plans). DRM is bad for consumers and regardless of the support for BD from movie companies etc..., consumers should choose HD-DVD if this DRM crap is real.


Both HD-DVD and BD have excessive DRM.  But on the other hand they both have MMC too.
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#31 XanaduTheBand
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Well, the cows are still owned. Paying up front for something that won't work as well a couple years down the road. thanks to TRega123 for backing it up. Cows = owned.
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How fast can you read/write data on a Blu-ray disc?

According to the Blu-ray Disc specification, 1x speed is defined as 36Mbps. However, as BD-ROM movies will require a 54Mbps data transfer rate the minimum speed we're expecting to see is 2x (72Mbps). Blu-ray also has the potential for much higher speeds, as a result of the larger numerical aperture (NA) adopted by Blu-ray Disc. The large NA value effectively means that Blu-ray will require less recording power and lower disc rotation speed than DVD and HD-DVD to achieve the same data transfer rate. While the media itself limited the recording speed in the past, the only limiting factor for Blu-ray is the capacity of the hardware. If we assume a maximum disc rotation speed of 10,000 RPM, then 12x at the outer diameter should be possible (about 400Mbps). This is why the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) already has plans to raise the speed to 8x (288Mbps) or more in the future.

taken from blu-ray.com,

Shows that 2x is more then suffiecient to last for a long time

Taken from

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#33 Timstuff
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Wait for it...

PS3 isn't done yet.

Lemmings. :lol:
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#34 smartcriminal
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Wait for it...

PS3 isn't done yet.

Lemmings. :lol:
Timstuff

oh yes sorry i forgot that SCE rang you up and told you.

Wether ps3  is finished or not the BDA has finished the spescifications for blu-ray which is what this topic is about

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#35 Timstuff
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The site is dead anyway. :|

PS3 will have a perfectly adiquet drive for everything it needs to do. Sony hasn't finalized what speed it will be, but it will be fast enough to play games with quick loading times and watch HD movies. Why would they even design a drive that wouldn't have the specifications necessary to make PS3 function wel as an HD movie player, which is one of Sony's primary objectives with the system? This thread is garbage.
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#36 smartcriminal
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The site is dead anyway. :|

PS3 will have a perfectly adiquet drive for everything it needs to do. Sony hasn't finalized what speed it will be, but it will be fast enough to play games with quick loading times and watch HD movies. Why would they even design a drive that wouldn't have the specifications necessary to make PS3 function wel as an HD movie player, which is one of Sony's primary objectives with the system? This thread is garbage.
Timstuff

agreed.It would be like microsoft putting a crappy dvd player in the xbox and xbox360, oh wait they did

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[QUOTE="viciousnip"]

2. The PS2 used a a DVD drive when DVD was already out on the market for many many years. In contrast, BR will almost launch with the PS3.... early adopters always bear the cost and heaches of new technoogly. Thank you Cows. :lol:

Puckhog04

You do realize that BD has been out for  a while now right?

There's not one BR movie...:|

In Japan there's BR disks and BR players already. BR players cost $3000 over there.
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LMFAO, TRega is funny sometimes. I like reading him babble on about CLV and CAV, same thing over and over and over again every single Blu-ray thread. :lol:
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How fast can you read/write data on a Blu-ray disc?

According to the Blu-ray Disc specification, 1x speed is defined as 36Mbps. However, as BD-ROM movies will require a 54Mbps data transfer rate the minimum speed we're expecting to see is 2x (72Mbps). Blu-ray also has the potential for much higher speeds, as a result of the larger numerical aperture (NA) adopted by Blu-ray Disc. The large NA value effectively means that Blu-ray will require less recording power and lower disc rotation speed than DVD and HD-DVD to achieve the same data transfer rate. While the media itself limited the recording speed in the past, the only limiting factor for Blu-ray is the capacity of the hardware. If we assume a maximum disc rotation speed of 10,000 RPM, then 12x at the outer diameter should be possible (about 400Mbps). This is why the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) already has plans to raise the speed to 8x (288Mbps) or more in the future.

taken from blu-ray.com,

Shows that 2x is more then suffiecient to last for a long time

Taken from

smartcriminal


I approve of this ownage. TRega has been owned.
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(partially taken from another post of mine in a differnt topic)

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 Since cows are the masters of speculation without facts and think it's fair game, I'll do a little of my own (drawn from history). My problem lies with Sony putting a non-finalized format in the PS3. We don't even know which drive is going into the PS3. If it's a 1st gen or even a 2nd gen drive (as it most likely will be) then expect both problems with the initial hardware and problems with finalization of the format. Hell, DVD took a long time out in the market (with record growth no less) to come to it's final form of standardization. Why do you think that my old 1st gen DVD player won't read dual-layered discs and doesn't like some new movies. Do you honestly think that BR will stay the way it is right now? Cows, if sony does give you a drive in your launch PS2's that within a few years doesn't play standardized BR well, what will you say?

XanaduTheBand
I have to comment on this. It's not accurate to portray DVD standards in the same light as BD standards. There are similarities, but DVD was effectively an open source format. Competing media formats were consolidated into one, and tossed around until a format everyone could agree on came about. The upcoming format war is different. HD-DVD and BD-DVD discs will not see a lot of revisions to the format like DVD did. There will still be a couple, but they shouldn't be significant enough to make some BD or HD movies not play on their respective drives.
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#41 smartcriminal
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the only reason a movie shouldnt play on a bd player is if they introduce new sizes or change from java to IHD on the disc
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#42 Heishiro
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[QUOTE="Jonsghost"]Bluray > dvd

Fact.
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#43 type_v_basic
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[QUOTE="type_v_basic"]

1. How does that affect gameplay?

2. How did that slow down the ps2?

XanaduTheBand

1. I never mentioned gameplay other than the fact that PS3 discs won't be able to utilize the full capacity of the medium due to being stuck with inferior drives.

2. The PS2 used a a DVD drive when DVD was already out on the market for many many years. In contrast, BR will almost launch with the PS3.... early adopters always bear the cost and heaches of new technoogly. Thank you Cows. :lol:



1. Its still better than a DVD9, whether or not it is fully utilized, the drive on the ps3 will still be an improvement on the other two consoles. It offers more options.

2. I'm not sure what you're saying, all I told you was that the original crappy player on the ps2 didn't stop it from selling in the tens of millions, so why should it do that this generation?
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[QUOTE="viciousnip"]

2. The PS2 used a a DVD drive when DVD was already out on the market for many many years. In contrast, BR will almost launch with the PS3.... early adopters always bear the cost and heaches of new technoogly. Thank you Cows. :lol:

Puckhog04

You do realize that BD has been out for  a while now right?

There's not one BR movie...:|

theres a couple
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#45 New_Syntax
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[QUOTE="TRega123"]Although you didn't provide a real link, you are correct. Every optical drive starts with CLV or constant linear velocity drives and then progresses to CAV or constant angular velocity.

CLV is good at reading data in adjacent sectors, however when data is scattered all over the disk (as is the case with games) there is a whole lot of slowdown due to poor seek times. CAV does not have this problem.

Both the sega CD and the PSP had CLV drives, and they have both demonstrated poor loading times. The good news is, PS3 games won't be on blu ray. They will be on DVD, just like xbox 360 games. They will not be on blu ray because of the poor seek times from the CLV blu ray drive.



And here you are again. First of all, even 2 year old prototype BR drives are CLV/CRV drives, and there are already models available that support both CLV and CRV.

again:
Read About Automatic CAV/CLV selection...
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#46 sulimanitachi
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ps3 is inferior
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#47 OceanLeet
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Sony was stupid for putting such a cutting edge, untested tech in their new PS.  Sony fans should be outraged, not defensive.
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#48 Krigon
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Why are you bumping 1 year old threads.
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#49 2largeadults
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(partially taken from another post of mine in a differnt topic)

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Since cows are the masters of speculation without facts and think it's fair game, I'll do a little of my own (drawn from history). My problem lies with Sony putting a non-finalized format in the PS3. We don't even know which drive is going into the PS3. If it's a 1st gen or even a 2nd gen drive (as it most likely will be) then expect both problems with the initial hardware and problems with finalization of the format. Hell, DVD took a long time out in the market (with record growth no less) to come to it's final form of standardization. Why do you think that my old 1st gen DVD player won't read dual-layered discs and doesn't like some new movies. Do you honestly think that BR will stay the way it is right now? Cows, if sony does give you a drive in your launch PS2's that within a few years doesn't play standardized BR well, what will you say?

XanaduTheBand
I would say you're worrying about something not worth worrying about.