Blu-ray Disc

PlayStation®3 uses the revolutionary new optical disc format to provide the best possible sound and picture quality.

With its phenomenal processing power, PlayStation 3 is designed to deal with crisp High Definition imagery and crystal clear sound - and Blu-ray Disc is the perfect format for delivering the huge amounts of data this requires. A single Blu-ray Disc can store 25GB (single layer), or even 50GB (dual layer). By comparison, DVDs can only contain up to 4.7GB.

Capable of delivering an image resolution more than five times higher than that of standard DVD video, Blu-ray Disc is a revelation. Movies come with a level of detail and colour like never before, while sound is markedly improved since there's no need for data compression.

Blu-ray Disc isn't just for movies, either. Games benefit from the additional storage as much as, if not more than movies, with developers able to rely on access to the huge amounts of data required to create compelling, truly next generation worlds.