Comments on: Microsoft Passes on Blu-Ray on XBox 360

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:27:43 +0000

I think a missing point would be that the Xbox with its standard internal DVD drive only allows game developers 9GB of space to develop HD games as compared to Sony’s 50GB Blu-ray drive. This will make the Sony PS3 more desirable to developers going forward. Added to this the fact that the PS3 gives your an included HD Blu-ray movie player that is a feature that has already helped them sell the PS3.

Microsoft bet wrong on HD DVD with its half hearted support for the format and do not want to pay Sony a licensing fee for Xbox’s they sell. This leaves them at a disadvantage going forward. It will now be up to Sony to execute on this advantage.

By: SMASH

SMASH — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:07:37 +0000

there getting all teckie on these comments… i just wanted to say you say hmmmmm and i say strechingggggg

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:54:11 +0000

I still occasionally download 720p or 1080p mkvs and convert them with mkv2vob to watch on the ps3…but it’s a pretty big pain, and 1080p being a minimum of a 9GB download, even at full 6mbit from newsgroups…I generally just stick with blurays from netflix.

don’t even get me started on the “hd” movies from apple or microsoft. /puke

bought the ps3 just for rock band, was close to getting a 360, very glad I didn’t

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:06:23 +0000

Exactly. I’m not really interested in waiting a week for my true HD movie to fully download. Even if streaming is utilized, it’s still not really feasible.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:54:43 +0000

With the state of high speed bandwidth, especially in the U.S., we are no where near mainstream HD movie downloads. Highly compressed 720p looks like crapola compared 1080p Bluray.