SCE President Ken Kutaragi has confirmed that negotiations with Toshiba on the next-gen DVD format are at an end. Sony were striving to push forward blue-ray disks, which have a storage capacity of 50 Gb. While Toshiba were looking to arm the world with HD-DVD disks which typically only store 30 Gb but arguably are cheaper to produce and thus friendlier to the consumer and their wallets.Negotiations started back in February this year but neither company can reach a compromise on storage capacities. So it looks like both formats will be hitting the market along with the next generation of DVD players, and the PlayStation 3.
Kutaragi went on to discuss Sony's Cell networked processor, which will be used in the PlayStation 3 along with a range of other consumer electronics devices such as "smart TVs".
He told Nikkei Electronics that the microprocessor features eight synergistic processor elements or SPEs because the number eight is an "exponential aesthetic". However, only seven of these will be used as this is "the ultimate aesthetic" with regards to engineering - as announced by Sony at this year's E3, leaving one SPE unused should improve chip yield and slash production costs.
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