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Why the PlayStation 5 still using Bluray will make most of its revealed specs useless and void, and why they should ditch it for alternatives.

It has been revealed in the same interview as the "PS5 Specs" that the PS5 will continue to use bluray. Not only does that show innovation in the physical space is dead, but will actually be a detriment to the specs "cerny" was touting. I was expecting at least using the niche improved and digital supported digital disc format bu they have decided for costs sake to keep a drive that's going to cause massive issues for the PS5.

Here are the primary issues with this terrible move:

1. Bluray is already dead, Sony can't save it, and 4K Bluray won't suddenly get an uptick in 1-2 years when 4K is standard. They aren't going to get any profits from their physical movie division from this, and many of their old partners from 2006-8 have jumped ship.

2. You can't tout that you are going to have a "fast SSD Drive" in the PS5 and say loads will take one second if you are still using Bluray. When you install from Bluray you're also running the Bluray data and codecs on the machine, which an SSD drive won't do much to increase the speed of because that format is naturally slow, especially since it checks DRM. Even if you were to add a bit of laser disc read, it would only marginally increase the speed. It's like you having a 20watt phone wanting a 30wat charge from the charger, you can't charge at 30 wats if the phone is capped at 20, the SSD drive is basically useless outside Digital games.

3. With #2 being true it begs the question for why they don't either go with the new Advanced Digital discs or just scrap discs altogether and go all digital for the PS5? It doesn't make sense to hype an SSD drive if the SSD drive doesn't do anything. Actually having games load in a second would be a great sales pitch and would be considerably more profitable. It would also result in your console being cheaper to produce.

4. Blurays death is clearly at hand with even big boys like Samsung running for the hills. There isn't a major financial pool to pull from for it in 2019. Which means that since 2018, it's been becoming more and more expensive gradually to produce Bluray media. Since there's no competition and not many people throwing money into the pool, the price of BR is now going up or staying the same. Inevitably Bluray will become more of a rarity and the losses will outpace the profits by a considerable margin.

5. Even if we remove #4 and talk about Bluray TODAY, it's still too expensive and not at a mass market price. As regular Bluray is just starting to hit that, 4K Bluray has come and made old BluRay irrelevant. So we once again have an expensive format. Bluray has never and will never hit the DVD price point and never will until its dead and sold in bargin bins.

6. There's no consumer incentive anymore. Digital giveaways with Bluray discs have failed to get people interested. A desperate strategy used to salvage the format, and now there's nothing left but the current "marginal" quality advantage of a physical disc. It's 2019, we have digital tech that beats regular Blu-ray and now have some that support HDR, Vision, and other features. Things are moving much faster than before, and that marginal advantage will be gone in 1-2 years. A side-effect of 4k Bluray being just an upressed regular Bluray with no problems addressed. Lack of innovation.

7. Microsoft is pushing its competitors format more than Sony, who's been working with the rest of the BR club to try and save the failing format. The Xbox One S and the X are the only console Trojan Horsing the Blu-Ray format, and Sony's refusal to add it to the Slim and both variations of the Pro was Sony's chance to try and spread 4K Bluray world wide. Instead Sony acted like fools, and ignored pushing their own format. That was likely the last chance to get it to work. Having two companies have 4K Bluray across nearly 200 million consumers. Now 4K Bluray will be niche format on the PS5 (assuming that they even use it) for physical gamers. Which as I mentioned above, screw up the PS5.

8. The New Advanced Digital Disc Format Sony is ignoring in favor of Bluray would allow Sony to have high quality quick reads that can immediately download in real-time while playing instead of requiring DRM installs. It's like we are stuck in 2006 because of Sony's lack of moving into the future. If Sony wants to have 1 second load times on a Bluray disc, they'll have to, as I said above, use part of the disc reader along with the installed game to speed it up. Issue with that is such tactics increases latency causing not only input lag but framerate lag as well.

9. Most Games are rendered with Digital sponsored tools that "downgrade" when formatting them to Bluray. It's the same with Movies, the tools are too advanced to update the Bluray tools to keep up, so they have to downgrade certain graphical features and image quality to get things on a Bluray. The only reason why Bluray contains an advantage is because of streaming, which is close to passing 4K Bluray. But when looking at Digital uncompressed to disc uncompressed, there's no competition. This means that non-streaming digital downloads on the PS5 will LOOK BETTER than Discs. Making keeping Bluray pointless.

The conclusion is simple, there's still time, either make an all digital device, or trade Bluray for the Advanced Digital Disc, which has a faster transfer rate, can load in seconds, can download in real-time, and can be sued as temporary memory or Vram storage in real-time. While also supporting higher resolutions and features since it's meant to be future proof and modular.

Cerny touting some of the features the PS5 will have is pointless if it can't actually be done. We aren't in 2006 anymore, it's time to realize the format from its inception failed, a lot of people have lost money, and even more people are losing money NOW and even leaving YOU behind because they can't take the red anymore. You can't save Bluray so give up. You came out of a bad time and made Sony a relevant name again in many areas, however Bluray and Phones are literally costing you billions of dollars because you keep chasing after an imaginary pot of gold that will never happen. Abandon Bluray now(and phones) and actually provide a console your fans will care about instead of talking about graphical features that will be hampered by Bluray or SSD drives that won't do anything for Bluray games at all and only for digital.

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ANOTHER BIG REASON why Bluray needs to be kicked from the PS5, is because people ARE DYING. Bluray has been dangerous for years, but because money has pushed it artificially to the frontlines for years, it's been causing damage to peoples bodies, making them blind, giving them cancer and other illness related diseases, produced radiations, and other big problems:

https://www.gearbest.com/blog/how-to/the-harm-and-source-of-blu-ray-3224
1. Damage structure
Harmful Blu-ray has extremely high energy and can penetrate the lens to the retina, causing atrophy and even death of retinal pigment epithelial cells. The death of light-sensitive cells can lead to loss of vision, which is irreversible. Blu-ray can also cause macular lesions. In human eyes, the lens absorbs part of the Blu-ray to form cataracts, and most of the Blu-ray penetrates the lens, especially in children, the lens is clearer and cannot effectively resist the Blu-ray. As a result, macular lesions and cataracts are more likely to occur.

2. Asthenopia
Due to the short wavelength of Blu-ray, the focal point is not in the center of the retina, but in the front of the retina. If you want to see clearly, the eyeball will be in a tense state for a long time, causing visual fatigue. Long period of visual fatigue may lead to the deepening of myopia, the appearance of diplopia, the easy serial reading, the inability to concentrate attention and so on, which may affect people's study and work efficiency.

3. Not sleeping well
Blu-ray inhibits melatonin, an important hormone that affects sleep, and is known to promote sleep and regulate jet lag. This also explains why playing with mobile phones or tablets before bedtime can cause poor sleep quality or even difficulty falling asleep.

The source of Blu-ray
Blu-ray is abundant in computer display, fluorescent lamp, mobile phone, and digital product, display screen, led and so on. The Blu-ray in this wavelength can increase the amount of macular toxin in the eyes, which is a serious threat to the health of our eyes.


Blu-ray can be seen everywhere in daily life, but the harmful Blu-ray comes from led LCD screen. Now the LCD screen is using the led backlight. Because the backlight needs white light, the industry uses blue led and yellow phosphors to form white light. Because the blue led is a main hardware, the blue spectrum in this white light has a wave peak, which causes what we call harmful Blu-ray damage to the eyes.


Most families choose to watch TV before bedtime; even many people will turn off the lights while watching TV, combined with flashing screen and other factors, resulting in harmful Blu-ray damage to the eyes. And because of the long time spent watching TV, the damage will be even greater. Due to harmful Blu-ray damage to the eyes is cumulative, so the injury of TV Blu-ray to the eyes should be paid enough attention, especially for teenagers and children.

Most people are ill-informed so don't realize the many things they use daily causing massive permanent harm to the. But the millions of people sick or deceased due to the dangers of Bluray as shown above is something that corporations should be forced to answer for. Especially Sony and Microsoft which have been pedaling the format into the electronic consumer gaming industry.

The damage is irreversible.
 
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Yeah, Sony should go cartridge. It would also be in-line with their evolving plans to make PS VR more portable and wireless. I could imagine a cartridge-only (no Blu Ray drive), "PS5 Portable VR" console unit that is small enough to carry in a backpack so that people could try VR in the wild.

Sony should still include a disc tray for backwards compatibility and movie-watching, of course. Even for a "dead format", Blu Ray is still popular among general consumers.
 

Jigsaah

Gold Member
Wait what else is there other than blu ray? Did I miss something. Plus with Digital taking over...wouldn't people who download their games essentially bypass any handicap Blu Ray would introduce?

WHAT IS THIS NONSENSE!?
 
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Ar¢tos

Member
What?
Blu-rays are a install media only, why bother? They are cheap to produce, up to 300GB (Soon 500GB and 1 TB), and many MANY MANY people still prefer physical media. Read speeds have also advanced since ps4 release. Can't you really wait a few minutes for a game to install?
 

Abriael_GN

RSI Employee of the Year
This is a stupid post. It's well understood that even on PS4, the full game is installed from the disc to the HDD and the disc merely operates as a DRM check at that point. There is no reason to expect this to change for PS5.

This. This post makes zero sense and shows lack of understanding of how this work.

If it worked like the OP describes, both PS4 and Xbox One would be much, much slower than they are now.
 

ultrazilla

Member
Will the blu-ray really matter though? I'm pretty sure all PS4 blu rays are loaded into memory and the game basically just checks if the disc is in the system. It's basically a "digital purchase" and the disc is the DRM.
 

ShirAhava

Plays with kids toys, in the adult gaming world
HVD is right around the corner don't worry (not really)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc

EDIT.

Oh, its the "blu ray is the devil" poster again

fb8
 

Flintty

Member
Is this confirmed?

It’s only really an issue if game assets become so big they need a bigger install medium, and if that were to be the case, they can use multiple discs as has been done in the past.
Saying this as someone who has never bought into the platform btw.
 

TeamGhobad

Banned
i wish we could downvote posts. obviously games are not gonna run off a blu ray disc most games run off a HDD and do a "handshake" with a disc to see that its there.
 

SonGoku

Member
The conclusion is simple, there's still time, either make an all digital device,
Why would you want an all digital device?
Yeah, Sony should go cartridge.
Sarcasm right?
And what's this "nEw aDvaNcEd dIgItAl dIsC fOrmAt"? I've never heard of it and I'm an accountant.
I googled it for good measure and nothing. I believe this is just a troll thread, nothing he wrote makes sense.
 
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Ok, ok, let's break this down...........Again

But first I want everyone in the thread to know every single link in his OP is the same article from the same site.

1. Bluray is already dead, Sony can't save it, and 4K Bluray won't suddenly get an uptick in 1-2 years when 4K is standard. They aren't going to get any profits from their physical movie division from this, and many of their old partners from 2006-8 have jumped ship.

Sony doesn't have a "Physical Movie Division" and your link doesn't show "old partners jumping ship" it's an opinion piece from pocket-lint.

2. You can't tout that you are going to have a "fast SSD Drive" in the PS5 and say loads will take one second if you are still using Bluray. When you install from Bluray you're also running the Bluray data and codecs on the machine, which an SSD drive won't do much to increase the speed of because that format is naturally slow, especially since it checks DRM. Even if you were to add a bit of laser disc read, it would only marginally increase the speed. It's like you having a 20watt phone wanting a 30wat charge from the charger, you can't charge at 30 wats if the phone is capped at 20, the SSD drive is basically useless outside Digital games.

What is this I don't even know what this is. Are you saying that Bluray is capped at a certain transfer rate so the SSD can't make it transfer faster? That doesn't even make sense, we are taking about a game ALREADY FREAKING INSTALLED TO THE SSD. Did you forget how game installs work?

Are you saying the physical presence of the Blu Ray disc is downloading along with the game file so that it's kind of like emulating a console on PC when the SSD runs the game? Because that doesn't make any damn sense and is extremely convoluted. My head hurts. Why would you need to have the PS5 "read the disc" to INCREASE load times What? You ALREADY DOWNLOADED THE GAME!!!!

3. With #2 being true it begs the question for why they don't either go with the new Advanced Digital discs or just scrap discs altogether and go all digital for the PS5? It doesn't make sense to hype an SSD drive if the SSD drive doesn't do anything. Actually having games load in a second would be a great sales pitch and would be considerably more profitable. It would also result in your console being cheaper to produce.

How is #2 true??? It's not even close to true!

What the heck is Advanced Digital Disc? I looked it up, it doesn't exist! The only thing that comes up on google is HD D........V.....D..................................Are you freaking kidding me? Is this a stealth HD DVD thread?

4. Blurays death is clearly at hand with even big boys like Samsung running for the hills. There isn't a major financial pool to pull from for it in 2019. Which means that since 2018, it's been becoming more and more expensive gradually to produce Bluray media. Since there's no competition and not many people throwing money into the pool, the price of BR is now going up or staying the same. Inevitably Bluray will become more of a rarity and the losses will outpace the profits by a considerable margin.

Do you have a link showing that Blu Ray has been getting more expensive since 2018? Do you have a link to anything other than that ONE SAME ARTICLE for your whole OP?

Also yeah, Samsung did leave. Has nothing to do with the PRICE of BLU RAY.

5. Even if we remove #4 and talk about Bluray TODAY, it's still too expensive and not at a mass market price. As regular Bluray is just starting to hit that, 4K Bluray has come and made old BluRay irrelevant. So we once again have an expensive format. Bluray has never and will never hit the DVD price point and never will until its dead and sold in bargin bins.

I like how you use that same article for every link.

6. There's no consumer incentive anymore. Digital giveaways with Bluray discs have failed to get people interested. A desperate strategy used to salvage the format, and now there's nothing left but the current "marginal" quality advantage of a physical disc. It's 2019, we have digital tech that beats regular Blu-ray and now have some that support HDR, Vision, and other features. Things are moving much faster than before, and that marginal advantage will be gone in 1-2 years. A side-effect of 4k Bluray being just an upressed regular Bluray with no problems addressed. Lack of innovation.

What does digital giveaways have to do with the PS5 being harmed by the format????? "HDR, Vision, and Features" WHAT FEATURES????????? WHAT THE FUCK IS UPRESSED REGULAR BLU RAY?????

7. Microsoft is pushing its competitors format more than Sony, who's been working with the rest of the BR club to try and save the failing format. The Xbox One S and the X are the only console Trojan Horsing the Blu-Ray format, and Sony's refusal to add it to the Slim and both variations of the Pro was Sony's chance to try and spread 4K Bluray world wide. Instead Sony acted like fools, and ignored pushing their own format. That was likely the last chance to get it to work. Having two companies have 4K Bluray across nearly 200 million consumers. Now 4K Bluray will be niche format on the PS5 (assuming that they even use it) for physical gamers. Which as I mentioned above, screw up the PS5.

"BOTH" variations of the pro? There's another PS4 Pro?? What does Microsoft having 4K Blu Ray have to do with the PS5 being doomed for using it??

8. The New Advanced Digital Disc Format Sony is ignoring in favor of Bluray would allow Sony to have high quality quick reads that can immediately download in real-time while playing instead of requiring DRM installs. It's like we are stuck in 2006 because of Sony's lack of moving into the future. If Sony wants to have 1 second load times on a Bluray disc, they'll have to, as I said above, use part of the disc reader along with the installed game to speed it up. Issue with that is such tactics increases latency causing not only input lag but framerate lag as well.

This is BS, I'm going to need a name, or the company behind this mythical disc format. Also no SONY DOES NOT HAVE TO USE THE DISC READER TO SPEED UP THE SSD. Also how the heck does using the disc reader create latency? This is complete nonsense. Frame-rate lag? What?

9. Most Games are rendered with Digital sponsored tools that "downgrade" when formatting them to Bluray. It's the same with Movies, the tools are too advanced to update the Bluray tools to keep up, so they have to downgrade certain graphical features and image quality to get things on a Bluray. The only reason why Bluray contains an advantage is because of streaming, which is close to passing 4K Bluray. But when looking at Digital uncompressed to disc uncompressed, there's no competition. This means that non-streaming digital downloads on the PS5 will LOOK BETTER than Discs. Making keeping Bluray pointless.

Digital sponsored tools? Do you even know how game development works?

"Too advanced to update the Blu Ray tools" doesn't even have context.

So you're saying that all printed PS5 games will automatically look worse than the Digital versions because of the laser reading the disc from the SSD???

The conclusion is simple, there's still time, either make an all digital device, or trade Bluray for the Advanced Digital Disc, which has a faster transfer rate, can load in seconds, can download in real-time, and can be sued as temporary memory or Vram storage in real-time. While also supporting higher resolutions and features since it's meant to be future proof and modular.

Cerny touting some of the features the PS5 will have is pointless if it can't actually be done. We aren't in 2006 anymore, it's time to realize the format from its inception failed, a lot of people have lost money, and even more people are losing money NOW and even leaving YOU behind because they can't take the red anymore. You can't save Bluray so give up. You came out of a bad time and made Sony a relevant name again in many areas, however Bluray and Phones are literally costing you billions of dollars because you keep chasing after an imaginary pot of gold that will never happen. Abandon Bluray now(and phones) and actually provide a console your fans will care about instead of talking about graphical features that will be hampered by Bluray or SSD drives that won't do anything for Bluray games at all and only for digital.

WTF does "Download in Real-time" mean? I can download a music file off my browser in real-time right now. Also, you're going to file a lawsuit against VRAM?? Did you just say that a physical disc can be used for temporary system memory!?!?!?!?

In Conclusion, after a through investigation I believe your thread is primarily made of 100% Bull concocted shit. You don't get input and FPS lag from reading a fucking disc with a fucking laser. There are no "Blu Ray tools" that get downgraded because they are out dated, and the SSD doesn't increase load times because the "codecs" came from a Blu Ray.

BTW, according to Chinese Outlet Saowen, those Blu Ray supporting Xbox Ones sold 70 million units because Saowen is a tech company on the side of your ass which takes vicinity in your rectum.
 

theHFIC

Member
I think the better question is will Sony include a 4K BluRay drive on PS Next or will they keep it at standard BluRay.

I don't care about 4k BluRay titles, but I think it was dumb of Sony to not include it on the PS Pro while the Xbone SNADE and the X did have it. Especially with 4K being the current flavor of the month.
 

ethomaz

Banned
I never read so much nonsense in a single thread on GAF before :messenger_tears_of_joy::messenger_tears_of_joy::messenger_tears_of_joy::messenger_tears_of_joy::messenger_tears_of_joy:

Blu-Ray will help with fast install times (after that digital and physical are identical, BC with physical discs, trade, etc.

There is basically no downside in having Blu-ray as an option.
 
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DeepEnigma

Gold Member
I think the better question is will Sony include a 4K BluRay drive on PS Next or will they keep it at standard BluRay.

I don't care about 4k BluRay titles, but I think it was dumb of Sony to not include it on the PS Pro while the Xbone SNADE and the X did have it. Especially with 4K being the current flavor of the month.

I think it’ll be 4K mainly for disk storage density since games are getting bigger. Rockstar already started putting two Blu-ray discs with RDR2.
 
Give it up dude. Did the Wire article piss you off that much? MS will have their articles about specs an features soon.

No this has nothing to do with the spec reveal, well at least partially, he has been running this same issue into the ground for months. In fact he got banned 4 times because he turned to attacks in the other Blu Ray thread. As soon as the PS5 was confirmed to have Blu Ray he was given a green-light to make another anti-BR thread.
 
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