Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Blu Ray in PS3

Blu Ray in PS3



Continuing the line of features on the PS3, a little information about the Blu-Ray format:

Blu-ray Disc (BD) is a next-generation media format that delivers the ultimate high-definition entertainment experience. Blu-ray Disc was developed to enable recording, rewriting and playback of high-definition video as well as storing large amounts of data. Blu-ray was jointly developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) and is supported by more than 170 of the world’s leading consumer electronics, personal computer and media manufacturers.

With Blu-ray Disc technology, the Playstation 3 system offers game developers unprecedented power to express their creativity and a larger canvas in which to create an unsurpassed level of interaction, sophistication and reality. The format offers more than five times the storage capacity of traditional DVDs and can hold up to 50GB on a dual-layer disc. Add to that Blu-ray Disc audio which redefines “life-like.” With 7.1 channel surround sound and true lossless audio, every note, every sound, every explosion, every cheer of the crowd is on the disc – just like it would be if you were actually there.

Just like the DVD format offered a technological leap over CDs, Blu-ray Disc is the next leap forward in the natural advancement of data storage and digital entertainment.

Features:


Supported by the Blu-ray Association and has broader industry support than any disc format ever launched.

Just like the other PlayStation consoles have helped establish new media formats such as the CD and DVD, we expect the PS3 system to help propel the growth of the Blu-ray Disc format.

The format offers large storage capacity that game creators require in today’s high-def world—more than five times the storage capacity of traditional DVDs.

Blu-ray offers pristine picture quality at 1080p the highest-definition resolution available today.

In addition to videogames and movies, Blu-ray Disc recordable formats can store almost anything in your digital world, including photographs, home videos, music libraries and data.

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Suggested retail price by region*
Region Expected pricing at release
Basic Premium
Japan Japan JP¥49,980 Open price
United States United States US$499 US$599
Canada Canada C$549 C$659
Mexico Mexico MXN$7,999 MXN$9,499
European Union Eurozone
(excluding Finland)
499 €599
United Kingdom United Kingdom GB£375† GB£425†
Switzerland Switzerland
CHF 749 CHF 899
Norway Norway
-
5000 NOK
Denmark Denmark 4295 DKK 5495 DKK†
Sweden Sweden
-
5999 SEK
Finland Finland €550 €650
Australia Australia A$829 A$999
New Zealand New Zealand NZ$999†
NZ$1199.95†
The PS3's 3.2 GHz Cell processor, developed jointly by Sony, Toshiba and IBM ("SIT"), is an implementation to dynamically assign physical processor cores to do different types of work independantly. It has a PowerPC-based "Power Processing Element" (PPE) and six accessible 3.2 GHz Synergistic Processing Elements (SPEs), a seventh runs in a special mode and is dedicated to OS security, and an eighth disabled to improve production yields. The PPE, SPE's and other elements ("units") are connected via an Element Interconnect Bus which serves to connect all of the units in a ring-style bus. The PPE has a 512KB level 2 cache and one VMX vector unit. Each of the SPEs is a RISC processor with 128 128-bit SIMD GPRs and superscalar functions. Each SPE contains 256KB of non-cached memory (local storage, "LS") that is shared by program code and work data. SPEs may access more data in the main memory using DMA. The floating point performance of the whole system (CPU + GPU) is reported to be 2.18 TFLOPS[38]. PlayStation 3's Cell CPU achieves 218 GFLOPS single precision float and is reported at around 26 GFLOPS double precision. The PS3 will ship with 256 MB of Rambus XDR DRAM, clocked at CPU die speed.