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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: brawndolicious on August 16, 2006, 07:16:49 PM

Title: Sony gets their 50 GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs out the door.
Post by: brawndolicious on August 16, 2006, 07:16:49 PM
$48 (http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/16/sony-gets-their-50gb-dual-layer-blu-ray-discs-out-the-door/)
Title: Re: Sony gets their 50 GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs out the door.
Post by: Christopher on August 16, 2006, 07:53:59 PM
word.  Now get me that PS3.
Title: Re: Sony gets their 50 GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs out the door.
Post by: The Fake Shemp on August 16, 2006, 07:54:51 PM
PS3 GAMES AM $70
Title: Re: Sony gets their 50 GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs out the door.
Post by: Error Macro on August 16, 2006, 08:50:27 PM
Haven't recordable BD-50s been out since spring of last year in Japan?

This has nothing to do with 50GB movies.
Title: Re: Sony gets their 50 GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs out the door.
Post by: Diablos on August 16, 2006, 09:48:02 PM
Fuck Blu-Ray. It's the reason why PS3 is $600.

They should have used HD-DVD. Boo hoo, MS supports it. Sony helped MAKE the DVD a reality, and MS didn't cry about it when they used it for the Xbox... and 360.
Title: Re: Sony gets their 50 GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs out the door.
Post by: Eel O'Brian on August 16, 2006, 10:30:12 PM
Has there ever been a Sony media format that caught on and became a market standard?  Not trolling, genuinely curious.
Title: Re: Sony gets their 50 GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs out the door.
Post by: Diablos on August 16, 2006, 10:36:47 PM
Well, Sony played a major role in the development of the DVD, so they have had success there. But it's not a Sony-only invention.

According to a couple websites, the following compaines developed DVD:
Hitachi, JVC, Matsushita, Mitsubishi, Philips, Pioneer, Sony, Thomson, Time Warner, and Toshiba.

I really don't think a strictly Sony form of media ever became a force to truly be reckoned with. MD has had a lot of success, though. Especially for bootlegging.
Title: Re: Sony gets their 50 GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs out the door.
Post by: brawndolicious on August 16, 2006, 10:38:14 PM
Haven't recordable BD-50s been out since spring of last year in Japan?

This has nothing to do with 50GB movies.
Are you sure?  Was Sony selling them?
Has there ever been a Sony media format that caught on and became a market standard?  Not trolling, genuinely curious.
Yes, it's fucking useless.
Title: Re: Sony gets their 50 GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs out the door.
Post by: Cheebs on August 16, 2006, 10:40:20 PM
no one cares about blu-ray. or hd-dvd. sorry
Title: Re: Sony gets their 50 GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs out the door.
Post by: Christopher on August 16, 2006, 10:40:41 PM
Sony also made the CD media format for gaming the standard when Nintendo tried to stick to tired and true practices.  It's call innovation, something new to try...if anything they fail, brush off their knees and get back up.  Nintendo did when it stuck to carts, and when to CDs so I don't see why Sony would have such a problem.

If they fail so be it...but as we've learned many times over, the internet gaming community and their predictions often turn out to be wrong.  I'll be interested to see where the future of gaming and its media goes...but I'm not going to have "wars" or "debates" over it...in my mind I could care less.

I'm just interested in MGS4 and have been entertained by the last two Sony consoles.
Title: Re: Sony gets their 50 GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs out the door.
Post by: brawndolicious on August 16, 2006, 10:50:22 PM
Sony also made the CD media format for gaming the standard when Nintendo tried to stick to tired and true practices.  It's call innovation, something new to try...if anything they fail, brush off their knees and get back up.  Nintendo did when it stuck to carts, and when to CDs so I don't see why Sony would have such a problem.
Except this makes it a lot more expensive.  It wasn't a barely useable size upgrade that made sony and sega make their games run on CD's.
Title: Re: Sony gets their 50 GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs out the door.
Post by: Error Macro on August 16, 2006, 10:54:29 PM
Well, Sony played a major role in the development of the DVD, so they have had success there. But it's not a Sony-only invention.

Clarification: Sony had almost nothing to do with DVD as we know it.  It's really Toshiba's format (Super Density disc) with two fairly minor modifications - Philips/Sony's different pit geometry, and Philips' Eight-to-Fourteen Modulation encoding, which was not as efficient as Toshiba's, but more resistant to fingerprints and scratches.

Sony also made the CD media format for gaming the standard when Nintendo tried to stick to tired and true practices.  It's call innovation, something new to try...if anything they fail, brush off their knees and get back up.  Nintendo did when it stuck to carts, and when to CDs so I don't see why Sony would have such a problem.

Eh, I think CDs for the PSX was a fairly logical conclusion.

The 3DO used them, as did the Sega CD, Jaguar CD, Sega's Saturn, and even the Playstation was born out of the development of a CD add-on for the SNES.

[edit] Oops, forgot about the TurboGrafx CD/TurboDuo, FM Towns Marty, and Philips CD-i.
Title: Re: Sony gets their 50 GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs out the door.
Post by: Cheebs on August 16, 2006, 10:55:07 PM
Sony also made the CD media format for gaming the standard when Nintendo tried to stick to tired and true practices.

Sega did it first!  :punch
Title: Re: Sony gets their 50 GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs out the door.
Post by: Error Macro on August 16, 2006, 10:58:55 PM
FM Towns Marty was the first  ;)
Title: Re: Sony gets their 50 GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs out the door.
Post by: brawndolicious on August 16, 2006, 11:10:08 PM
FM Towns Marty was the first  ;)
why are you so positive?  This is a troll thread.
Title: Re: Sony gets their 50 GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs out the door.
Post by: Error Macro on August 16, 2006, 11:14:06 PM
FM Towns Marty was the first  ;)
why are you so positive?  This is a troll thread.

Yikes...  I'm sorry, I had forgotten.

I'm usually pretty negative, but post like a nice guy on the internets  :-*

So...


FUCK SONY

Seriously, I don't think Blu-ray is gonna make it.



Title: Re: Sony gets their 50 GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs out the door.
Post by: brawndolicious on August 16, 2006, 11:15:48 PM
Yikes...  I'm sorry, I had forgotten.

I'm usually pretty negative, but post like a nice guy on the internets  :-*

So...


FUCK SONY

Seriously, I don't think Blu-ray is gonna make it.




I'l try to make it more mean next time. 
Title: Re: Sony gets their 50 GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs out the door.
Post by: Christopher on August 16, 2006, 11:17:50 PM
don't you think it's a bit trival to "troll" a gaming machine/company?
Title: Re: Sony gets their 50 GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs out the door.
Post by: brawndolicious on August 16, 2006, 11:20:42 PM
don't you think it's a bit trival to "troll" a gaming machine/company?
No it isn't.  Why would you say that?  You flame the hell out of a poster, claimed that nobody bugs you on the internet, and then flamed the same poster in another topic that I believe that that poster made.  I believe the word that you used was "masochist"?
Title: Re: Sony gets their 50 GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs out the door.
Post by: Christopher on August 16, 2006, 11:28:10 PM
and what does this have to do with a gaming machine?
Title: Re: Sony gets their 50 GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs out the door.
Post by: Diablos on August 16, 2006, 11:31:50 PM
FM Towns Marty was the first  ;)

That is the BEST worse console name of ALL TIME.
So bad, it's good.

And thanks for clearing up the DVD info.
Title: Re: Sony gets their 50 GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs out the door.
Post by: brawndolicious on August 17, 2006, 12:03:12 AM
and what does this have to do with a gaming machine?
You're being a hypocrite by being biased against somebody else.
Title: Re: Sony gets their 50 GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs out the door.
Post by: Phoenix Dark on August 17, 2006, 12:06:03 AM
UMD with extra light shaders lol

Title: Re: Sony gets their 50 GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs out the door.
Post by: brawndolicious on August 17, 2006, 12:10:46 AM
It's pre-rendered.
Title: Re: Sony gets their 50 GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs out the door.
Post by: Phoenix Dark on August 17, 2006, 12:11:55 AM
At 15fps
Title: Re: Sony gets their 50 GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs out the door.
Post by: brawndolicious on August 17, 2006, 12:13:42 AM
Jesus Christ.
Title: Re: Sony gets their 50 GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs out the door.
Post by: Eel O'Brian on August 17, 2006, 01:12:51 PM
Yes, it's fucking useless.

I'm afraid I don't understand this response, am nintenho.
Title: Re: Sony gets their 50 GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs out the door.
Post by: MrAngryFace on August 17, 2006, 01:18:06 PM
70 dollar games, 600 dollar system.

Honest value of each title...ie motorstorm + idiots + ??? = profit
Title: Re: Sony gets their 50 GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs out the door.
Post by: Eel O'Brian on August 17, 2006, 01:21:54 PM
Are the games really going to be $70?  I don't keep up with all the rumors.
Title: Re: Sony gets their 50 GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs out the door.
Post by: MrAngryFace on August 17, 2006, 01:23:51 PM
Im ready to believe whatever fuels my trolling.
Title: Re: Sony gets their 50 GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs out the door.
Post by: Diablos on August 17, 2006, 01:25:46 PM
$70 games? What the fuck, Sony?
Title: Re: Sony gets their 50 GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs out the door.
Post by: brawndolicious on August 17, 2006, 05:54:03 PM
Are the games really going to be $70?  I don't keep up with all the rumors.
useless to consumers because it won't hold up to competition.
Title: Re: Sony gets their 50 GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs out the door.
Post by: Phoenix Dark on August 17, 2006, 05:56:16 PM
$70 games, $600 "computer" system, half ass waggle wand snag job, half ass Xbox Live snag job, next gen heir of UMD format...

Sounds like a winner to me!
Title: Re: Sony gets their 50 GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs out the door.
Post by: smiles-and-cries on August 17, 2006, 06:18:21 PM
I need a mac with a Blu-Ray Superdrive  :-\
Title: Re: Sony gets their 50 GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs out the door.
Post by: brawndolicious on August 17, 2006, 06:23:16 PM
I need a mac with a Blu-Ray Superdrive  :-\
why?  computer drives can't play movies.