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PLAY BEYONDPLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system unleashes a brilliant, high-definition entertainment experience.As its digital soul, the Cell Broadband Engine represents a tour de force in parallel processing, which means a gaming experience that is beyond what you know today. Its built-in Blu-ray Disc drive delivers a whole new generation in high-definition gaming and unmatched digital media storage. Whether it?s gaming, Blu-ray movies, music or online services, PLAYSTATION 3 invites you to Play Beyond.High-Definition CapabilitiesEnjoy high-definition entertainment, HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) means you can use your PLAYSTATION 3 with High-Definition displays as well as conventional or standard TVs.Hard Disk Drive (HDD)The PLAYSTATION3 comes with either a 20GB or 60GB removable hard disk drive (HDD).System InteroperabilityPLAYSTATION 3 and PSP (PlayStation Portable) play nice together. Easily exchange media like photos, videos and music from your PLAYSTATION 3 system to your PSP system. And get ready to witness an explosion in creativity as developers take on the challenge of integrating the PSP system into PLAYSTATION 3 games.Backwards CompatibilityPlay thousands of PS one and PlayStation2 games as well as your CDs and DVDs on the PLAYSTATION3.
Entertainment
The entertainment industry has grown and evolved over the years with music and cinema taking a new form through the ages and so have the technologies that fuel it. Gone are the days of eight songs on a cassette and VCR players with merely two hours of entertainment recorded on a single video cassette. With the advent of computers came digital data storage and hence the birth of DVD/CDs.
Quiet a step back in matters of physical form as these new generation audio/video storage devices hold an uncanny resemblance to the records that preceded the cassette generation. DVDs and CDs today are an everyday household entertainment storage device which has come a long way since the first records and cassettes were distributed commercially.
Notable advantages of DVD/CDs have to begin with the amount of storage space available. These days its possible to burn multiple movies on a single DVD and as far as audio goes if its in a highly compressed format such as .mp3 a single CD can accommodate multiple music albums. These discs are easy to handle, light and portable with no moving devices unlike the tape generation however they are delicate and a scratch on the DVD/CD surface could cause a disruption in the information being read by the player.
DVD/CDs were initially invented to provide high quality audio/video data to a user with the ability to regulate its production however this soon fizzled away with daily household computers gaining the ability to burn data in such formats. The race to curb piracy through such means has not hit a roadblock and DVD/CDs keep evolving with newer encryption technologies in a bid to curb unchecked replication of data spawning newer technologies like Blu-ray discs which seems to be yet another milestone on an unending road of innovation.
