Sony Didn't Intend the PlayStation 3 to Succeed as a Console

[CyanCaze]

Originally Posted by tilla There are no current plans to sell movies on HVD. At all. It is only being marketed as an enterprise backup solution for large businesses. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc There are no movie studios planning to release any films ever on the format. There are no retail players being designed. HVD is only being produced as a means to backup huge amounts of data. The industry has picked BluRay and for high definition movies there is really no advantage whatsoever to having even more space, especially with multi-layer bluray tech going as high as 16 layers in current R&D. It'd be a very, very hard sell.

I think your mistaken if you think blu-ray will last forever. Sure current movies don't require any more space. But what about games? With 3.9 terrabytes of info, I might be able to create a actual 3d world of planet earth. Where no place is off limits. I understand that you may think that it will have no place in this world, however games could use it to it's fullest.

Also no one planned on marketing on blu-ray before they made a player. Well maybe Sony, but that's it.

[mrmiller24]

Originally Posted by CyanCaze HVD isn't even out yet, and I doubt it will not be made public. HVD is just a holographic disc reader with 2 lasers, a green and a red one if I'm not mistaken. At the moment it is losing to blu-ray. But not by much, and HVD will eventually pass it, since blu-ray can only go so far.

This doesn't make sense, if HVD hasn't come out yet, how is it only just losing to blu-ray? i dont know much about whats going on with HVD but reading what other people are saying, the HVD cant pass blu-ray as a format if nobody is planning on using it for movies, which in sense is what blu-ray is for. from a business aspect blu-ray wouldnt consider HVD as competition, and vice versa. yes they are discs, but they are discs doing different things

anyway back to the article, i feel that most of this is true, but i doubt sony will be dropping the PS3, as they have always talked about its 10 year plan etc...

[CyanCaze]

Originally Posted by mrmiller24 This doesn't make sense, if HVD hasn't come out yet, how is it only just losing to blu-ray? i dont know much about whats going on with HVD but reading what other people are saying, the HVD cant pass blu-ray as a format if nobody is planning on using it for movies, which in sense is what blu-ray is for. from a business aspect blu-ray wouldnt consider HVD as competition, and vice versa. yes they are discs, but they are discs doing different things anyway back to the article, i feel that most of this is true, but i doubt sony will be dropping the PS3, as they have always talked about its 10 year plan etc...

I was talking about current Storage capacity. Blu-ray = 400GB HVD = 250GB