Technology Metro

Here is a Sony PlayStation 3 online blog contest, courtesy of BlogOhBlog. BlogOhBlog is a blog that provides valuable information on SEO and also provide free and premium Wordpress themes. One of the best places to be if you are looking for some wordpress templates or some help for newbie webmasters. BlogOhBlog are holding a contest which will be drawn on 21st of May 2008 and a lucky winner will get a PlayStation 3 and a Game of Your Choice. It is very easy to enter in this contest, the only requirement is you need to have a blog. Just write a post (at least 200 words) including a link to their contest post, subscribe to their RSS feed and leave a comment including the link to your contest post on theirs.

PlayStation 3 is a state of the art console game anyone can buy on the market. There are three different specification available for a PlayStation 3 and the specification for PlayStation 3 (PlayStation 3 40GB System) from the contest is:

• Internal 2.5″ SATA 40GB Hard Disk Drive
• Built-in Blu-ray/DVD/CD player
• Cell Broadband Engine advanced microprocessor
• SIXAXIS wireless controller
• Screen sizes supported : 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
• HDMI out - (x1 / HDMI), Analog: AV MULTI OUT x 1, Digital audio: DIGITAL OUT (OPTICAL) x 1
• Memory : 256MB XDR Main RAM, 256MB GDDR3 VRAM
• Two USB 2.0 Ports

A PlayStation 3 with the above features costs $400 at Amazon.com . This is actually the lowest specification PlayStation 3 console available. There are other two PlayStation 3 consoles available (PlayStation 3 60GB System and PlayStation 3 80GB System). Sony has been a leader in console gaming but with the release of Xbox Console, it has declined a bit and PlayStation 3 is the answer to Xbox. PlayStation is a big expensive than an Xbox or Nintendo Wii but the hardware on it superior than both of them. Sony was on top with their first PlayStation and then again with PlayStation 2. They were the sole superpower in console gaming. PlayStation 3 is designed to last so don’t expect a newer version (PlayStation 4??) at least for the next five years.

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Blu-Ray and HD-DVD has been competing with each other to make its technology the choice of the industry for high quality movies and high storage space discs. There has still not been a winner in this war. Quite bad for customers who want to commit to a technology. People will need to buy a Blu-Ray player to play the disc and HD-DVD player to watch movies or store data on it. It would be very wise for the manufacturers to choose a technology and go with it as not all customers can afford both. Maybe both the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray technology developers can come up with a player that plays both disc on one device. Sony has adopted the Blu-Ray discs for it’s games console, Play Station 3. Both these technologies can and will make the DVD we use, obsolete.
HD-DVD Optical disc storage capacity:

• 15 GB (single layer)
• 30 GB (dual layer)
• 51 GB (triple layer)

Blu-Ray Optical disc storage capacity:

• 25 GB (single layer)
• 50 GB (dual layer)

Both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD has a read mechanism of 36 Mbit/s for single layer disc and 72 Mbit/s for double layer disc. You decide which one will work best for you because as of now, there is no clear winner or any compromise on the format war between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD formats.

Amazon has a deal going on for Blu-Ray movies, if you buy any Blu-Ray movie at Amazon, you will get another one of your choice for free. Buy One Blu-ray Disc and Receive a Second for Free at Amazon.