so in 5 years all the movies/games will come out in this format and you will have to buy them all over again

No, it means that Blu-ray drives are going to last longer and be more energy efficient. It isn't a new format, just better technology for an existing format.

yep, thats what it means, it also is good to see advances in blue laser diodes consider a lot of the PS3's launch delays and limited supplies were caused by diode production problems.

This is very Good News, but it also mean that all people who jumped right into HD first generation has now de less eficient and less lifelasting drives, wich kind of make sense to all the people saying everywhere "Dont buy fist Gen Stuff"

thats great longer life for the products we buy!

This is great news, not only greater densities but speed/performance should increase as well. Also they state nonpolar which should make assemly cheaper, less problems.

I agree with the don't buy 1st gen stuff but these days when they fix problems it seems they create new ones, so is 2nd, 3rd, 4th.... and so on better? Maybe...

Great.

That's a really major point there about the longer life-time; it can't happen soon enough.

Currently a 'blue laser' is reckoned to be good for approx 3yrs at 'normal' usage.

(sadly this idea of 'normal' is never quite specified.)

I'm guessing that using an all-in-one machine for games and high def DVD isn't the smartest idea when you keep this in mind.

.....but you know how it is, some people just won't be told.

:lol:

blu ray sucks

more and more people are buying HD-DVD because it is cheaper

It's amazing how the fanboy shills avoided this one like the plague.

Has anyone been mentioning blue laser life expectancy, anywhere - at all?

If 3 years is the expected 'life' for the present generation with 'normal' use the how much less is that going to be if you use a single blue laser for games and movies in an all-in-one together?

I wonder if anyone thought to ask?

Wow, not one comment from the shill brigade.

Amazing.

Hasn't anyone found out the official line yet on how quickly your $600/£425 'investment' becomes a useless over-sized lump?

......and still those propagandist shills for the 'all-in-one' games and movie playing machine won't touch this one.

I wonder why?

No news on the PS3's (short) blue laser life-expectancy then, huh?

ha ha ha ha ha

Is there still no word yet on what sort of laser life-expectancy one might expect from an all-in-one games machine & movie player?

hahahaha hugjars

Im afraid they dindt even suscribed to this thread

Amazing tho isn't it?

They expect you to lash out a heap of dosh on something where the single most vital component is known to have a fairly short and limited lifespan (and let's face it that's as a movie player only).

You'd have thought someone might have been interested in what sort of life-expectancy there is when you run the thing as a games machine for umteen hours a day and your movie player as well.

The silence speaks volumes.

Perhaps the scripts haven't been prepared for this question yet?

hahaha

i do find it funny no one answers, but i odnt find the laser the most vital part of the ps3 though, its actually more like a tradition have to replace play station lasers, thetvwe been faulty since psx, and they havent stoped sony before, so i wouldnt expect any more quality from the new generation