Thats means the Xbox 360 will be able to play the next generation HD-DVD movies. But I don't like "external" drives. Hmm...maybe they'll have a Xbox 360 with a built in HD-DVD drive later on.
I'm still going to wait for the PS3. It should play Blu-Ray movies out of the box. The price for a PS3 is around $499. Ouch!! It better come with some accessories if its going to be that high.
Uh, 499? Last I heard it was gonna be around the same price at the Xbox360's premium package.
And yeah, external is wierd, it means that you'll likely pay 600 dollars if you want to watch HD-DVD's via the Xbox 360. Also, Microsoft has ruled out an Xbox that will play HD-DVD's later on, as they do not want to pay for the extra manufacturing cost involved with HD-DVD drives.
Between that, and the fact that the vast majority of movies will be available on Blu-Ray *as opposed to 33% for HD-DVD,* and I'd say, buy a PS3 and stick to Blu-Ray. ;)
I'm going to do more research on this. Maybe the PS3 alone will be my Blu-Ray movie player and gaming system. I hope they don't do what they did to the PS2.
The PS2 is a nice gaming system. But it sucks as a DVD player. No progressive output, slow navigation, and its picky on the types of DVDs you put in. (DVD-R, DVD+R, ETC.)
I just hope the PS3 doesn't do another one of Sony's weird proprietary tricks or "anti-piracy" hacking ploys. I've been wary of them ever since they made and killed Beta VCRs, but the recent CDs that hack into your computer with a root kit is above and beyond.
Still, I'm not even a gamer, and I've eyeballed Sony's gaming products. The PSP is the first gaming device I've seriously considered buying (not counting PCs, which can play games) in over a decade, because of it's other capabilities. If it didn't rely so heavily on proprietary parts--Sony Memory Sticks and specially designed PSP discs, plus movie playback only in specific formats--I would have been toting one around by now. As is, I'm holding out instead for a better PDA.
Taking a Gestalt approach, since it's the "in" thing...
Scott Gardener wrote:I just hope the PS3 doesn't do another one of Sony's weird proprietary tricks or "anti-piracy" hacking ploys. I've been wary of them ever since they made and killed Beta VCRs, but the recent CDs that hack into your computer with a root kit is above and beyond.
Still, I'm not even a gamer, and I've eyeballed Sony's gaming products. The PSP is the first gaming device I've seriously considered buying (not counting PCs, which can play games) in over a decade, because of it's other capabilities. If it didn't rely so heavily on proprietary parts--Sony Memory Sticks and specially designed PSP discs, plus movie playback only in specific formats--I would have been toting one around by now. As is, I'm holding out instead for a better PDA.
I have a PSP. I love it!! I brought it to Cagecon and showed ABrownrigg what it can do. He thought it was cool. I have the Freeborn teaser trailer on it. I can also put a full length feature film on the memory stick. (You need a program to convert the film to mpeg4.)
You can put music from CDs to the memory stick and play it on the PSP. You can also surf the net as well. A few of my posts to this forum was from the PSP.
400 for an xbox 360 i won't have that for another month or two!
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