Kutaragi: "Game over" for Blu-ray-HD-DVD deal

Earlier in the month, Sony Computer Entertainment president Ken Kutaragi said that he saw a very slim chance that the Blu-ray and HD-DVD factions lead by Sony and Toshiba, respectively, would be able to come up with a unified next-generation disc standard. Now, he's even less optimistic.


Talking to Nikkei Electronics, Kutaragi stated that the negotiations between the Blu-ray and HD-DVD camps "is game over," emphasizing that the PlayStation 3's development and release period will not be delayed due to any future talks for a unified disc standard.

Not too long ago, discussions between the Blu-ray and HD-DVD factions began in an effort to come up with a unified solution that would satisfy both camps. However, talks fell apart after Toshiba announced last month that it has no plans to accept Blu-ray's disc structure as the base for a unified standard.

Kutaragi also talked to Nikkei about various aesthetics of the Cell chip. He commented that the microprocessor comes with eight synergistic processor elements (SPEs), since the number eight is an "exponential aesthetic." He also added that the Cell uses only seven of them since that's "the ultimate aesthetic" in an engineering sense; at E3, Sony revealed that ignoring one SPE as a redundancy will improve the chip's yield and allow production costs to drop dramatically.

To me, it's funny that commercial blue LEDs, essential to both HD-DVD and Blu-ray, aren't even that old and they've already been out done by optware's Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD), an all around better format. 1TB capacity 1GB/s read/write speed, and backwards compatability with CD/DVDs. It has the data density of VHSs and the seek speed of DVDs.

The problem with HD-DVD is it's capacity. The problem with Blu-ray is no backwards compatability, and in it's roadmap SONY plans to double the data density and read/write speed of the previous discs at least 3X In Blu-rays life.The only problem with HVD is nobody knows about it.

HVD would make games cost like $500. The technology is far to expensive and not pratical. HVD writers cost around $10,000. The disk are fragual as hell too and you cant even get anything on them at all.

I think PS3 is more acceptable if using BD, because the next gen system is using high quality movie (like DAO4 on XBOX360 that the team ninjam complain about the DVD that using on XBOX360) and HD DVD is more lower capacity that BD. And may be the next gen game is more complex than now. Soo, The BD is suiteable for that.