Posted by Doug Jacobs on 01/18/07 01:10

In alt.games.video.sony-playstation3 spaceman <sonofzeus26@hotmail.com> wrote:

> LOL, now we know why sony went with 50 gig discs! it's the only way they can
> compete on an equal level with hd-dvd, by duplicating data to make up for
> slow access times, therefore defeating the purpose completely of having a 50
> gig capacity!

Not quite... Microsoft used a faster drive than Sony. Nothing to do with
HD-DVD/Blu-Ray, just another bad decision by Sony. Remember, the 360
still uses DVDs for games - not HD-DVDs. Also, when playing movies, both
HD-DVD and Blu-Ray are spinning/reading at about the same speed.

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