Posted by asj on 06/10/06 07:12

GMAN wrote:
> The thing runs on RedHat linux
> http://geekswithblogs.net/lorint/archive/2006/04/21/75795.aspx


see, the geeks like blu-ray better - as i mentioned many times, storage
capacity is always a factor. and they're right on another thing too -
sony is shooting itself in the ass ;-)

quote:

Lots of fun experimentation to be done here. Well worth the price of
admission. But honestly I'm still holding out for what the Blu-Ray
camp has to offer because HD-DVD maxes out at only 30 gigs using its
upper limit of 2 layers, and at 2 layers Blu-Ray is just getting
started, offering 50 gigs of storage. 100 gigs is not too far away on
the horizon in their 4-layer version, and in their back room a couple
years ago they had tested up to 8 layers for 200 gigs on a disc. Would
be interesting to know how far they are now with experimental versions
of Blu-Ray. Now if Sony would only be wise and price the first players
at $500 rathar than $900 then I think they would win hands-down in this
new format war. At least they will be rolling one into every
forthcoming PS3 which will be priced around $500.

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