According to Softpedia, the disc, audio and video types supported by the Playstation 3 have been revealed. As expected, the player will be capable of playing back Blu-ray ROM and the recordable BD-R and BD-RE formats. For audio CD playback, it supports CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW and Super Audio CD and for DVD Video playback, it supports DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW and DVD+RW.
When it comes to AV codec’s, its audio codec support includes AAC, WAV, MP3 and ATRAC, its video support includes MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 SP and MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 and its image support includes JPEG, PNG, BMP and GIF. So far, this console is still set to launch in November, unlike Sony’s Blu-ray player which has been delayed several times since the time the PS3 had been originally delayed to November. Thanks to johnzap for sending us the following news:
border=0>The image, video and music formats included in the features of the PS3 are similar with the formats supported by the PSP. In the video category, Sony has implemented PS3 support for MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 SP and MPEG-4 AVC/H.265 formats. As regarding audio, the included formats are: AAC, Wav, MP3 and ATRAC. JPEG, PNG, BMP and GIF are the image formats supported by the PS3. |
Unlike the PS2, this upcoming console surely has a fairly wide codec support. It is also interesting to see Super Audio CD support, as this does not seem to be a feature included with other Blu-ray players, never mind the HD DVD Players. ATRAC support comes of little surprise on the other hand, considering how much Sony tried pushing this format.
johnzap added: A
good range of supported formats, I would say? Certainly better than the Xbox
360. Furthermore, I suppose it should be playable directly from the console,
i.e. no need to a Windows Media server PC as is the case of the Xbox360? A few
more weeks and all will finally be known for sure
Source: Softpedia
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that deserves to go right up there with the Giant Enemy Crab and real time weapon switching!! 
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