Key Features of the Blu-ray Disc

Here is what the Blu-ray brings you.

• High-Definition
  Vast storage capacity (50 GB BD vs. 5 GB DVD) supports the large data requirements of high-definition games and movies*.

• Pristine Picture Quality
  Pristine picture quality at 1080p – the highest-definition resolution available today.

• Theater-quality Audio
  Audio that redefines “life-like” with 7.1 channel surround sound and true lossless audio. This theater-quality "uncompressed" audio supports 8 channels of Liner PCM and up to 32 audio streams.

• Home Entertainment Content
  Delivers a broad range of home entertainment content – seven of the eight major movie studios have already announced titles for Blu-ray, including Warner, Paramount, Fox, Disney, Sony, MGM and Lionsgate.

• Recordable Media
  Blu-ray offers a recordable format with unsurpassed storage capacity to store your digital world: photographs, home videos, music libraries and data, as well as games and movies.

• Maximum Bit Rate
  With the overwhelming computational power of its Cell Broadband Engine™ processor, PLAYSTATION®3 is capable of playing back with ease content from BD at a bit rate of multiplex 48Mbps, the maximum bit rate defined in BD standards.

• Industry Support
  Supported by more than 170 of the world’s leading consumer electronics, personal computer and media manufacturers including Apple, Dell, Hitachi, Hewlett-Packard, JVC, LG, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, TDK and Thomson – Blu-ray has the broadest industry support for any disc format ever launched.