Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!tjs From: tjs@cs.monash.edu.au (Toby Sargeant) Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Playstation 2 details Date: 28 Sep 1998 22:36:46 GMT Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <6uf42g$ja93@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <1dfwn22.a7u8a0bydajoN@a1-88-115.a1.nl> <360B4B18.78B1@mdx.ac.uk> <360B6890.B28C6C76@scee.sony.co.uk> <360BB179.403B@writeme.com> <360FC6A1.635B@writeme.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: longford.cs.monash.edu.au X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.4.3 UNIX) On Mon, 28 Sep 1998 18:25:53 +0100, James Rutherford wrote: >Toby Sargeant wrote: > >> Given that when they're used to store music, they're using lossy >> compression, which really isn't good for digital data, they'd make a >> pretty poor substitute for memory cards in their current >> configuration. > >Surely you can put whatever you want on them - the digital data doesn't >/have/ to be compressed. Well, yes. But given that the only storage figures I had were in terms of lossy compression, I figured it would be good to know how much uncompressed data you could store on them, before deciding whether they were a good choice. My suspicions were that they'd be about 100 meg, based purely on the fact that the discs looked like they were MO, and the surface area is about 1/6 of a cdrom. >I think they'd be excellent - cheap, small, (from what I've seen) fairly >rugged and [when you get bored] you can put music on 'em! Personally I think that everyone should switch to holographic memories, if for no other reason than that they'd _look_ cool :) Toby.