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Sony has revealed that PS3 will use the Blu-Ray disc format, which is designed
to hold five times as much data on a similarly sized disc...

Sony officials confirmed that the next iteration of the PlayStation home console
will be equipped with a Blu-Ray disc drive, allowing it to play back high
definition movies (as movies are gradually expected to move from DVD to Blu-Ray
in the coming years) as well as providing more space for game developers on the
discs.

Single-layer Blu-Ray discs can store up to 27Gb on one layer of data, compared
to 4.7Gb on DVDs, although the version of the standard favoured by Sony holds
only 23Gb - still around five times larger than existing DVD discs. The Blu-Ray
specification also allows for reading existing DVD discs, so the PS3 will almost
certainly still be able to handle standard DVD movies and PS2 titles.

Video playback units based on the new read-only standard are expected to appear
by the end of the current fiscal year, which runs through to March 2005 - the
same timescale in which Sony plans to unveil the PlayStation 3 in public for the
first time.