Geek and a Half

January 1st, 2006 by Jake

Happy New Year! To kick off the new year, I’d like to share some new hardware being released this year. I stumbled upon this article reading about the new PS3 coming out (hopefully) this year.

Welcome to the future. Expect, very soon, to see prototypes for a new Blu-Ray disc, the format of games for the new PlayStation 3. This new drive will support full DVD�R/RW, BD�R/RW/ROM, the reading of DVD and BD discs, but unfortunately for most computer users, will not support the playback or recording of CD-ROM’s.

Personally, that’s heartbreaking. If I have something to give to a friend, it usually fits on a CD-R, which nowadays takes seconds to burn. Most of my music is on CD, as are my games and backups. I suppose you could have a separate drive for your CDs, but why isn’t it possible to just add it into the BD-ROM drive? Personally, I’d like to see it all in one place.

Then again, as one anonymous user states,



If you want CD support, don’t buy this one. It may be the first to market, but others will come out that do have CD support.
Even for the business market, it doesn’t make sense to exclude CD. There is way to much archived on CD out there to simply decide now the format is obsolete.

I’m not too worried, there is way too much for CD-ROM to just be excluded. The technology’s there, we just have to be patient for it to happen.

Source: PS3 News Coverage 24/7.