I cant help but think that the vast majority of posters to this site are just as idiotic as the people they rant against.
1) the 360 will use 12x DVD which is faster then a 1x, 2x BDROM. That being said, unless sony intends to release in 2007 or spend a buttload of money expect 2x BDroms on ps3 with load times longer then that found on the 360.
2)BDROM is NOT the media of the future, high capacity flash cards and mini HDDS are.
WHY? because of what HDDVD is trying to accomplish. HDDVD wants to set up content management which allows CONSUMERS to make LEGAL copies of intellectual property. This means you buy the movie ONCE and you can play it on your HDDVD player, stream it to another room in your house through a 360, load it into you video IPOD on the go, or import tracks to your MP3 player. the BluRay groups wants you to purchase the SAME intellectual property MULTIPLE times for different formats, IE buy DVD version, buy bluray version, buy UMD, version, buy CD soundtrack etc. If the movie studios have their way you will be paying $100 for the same exact intellectual content which they made ONCE but you must purchase MULTIPLE times to use in other methods. MS and the HDDVD group wants to eliminate that and let media/content be interchangable through all types of devices. This is what the computer companies back HDDVD, but its also whay movie companies back BluRay because use stupid consumers are so taken with the idea of bigger is better that we dont realize Hollywood plans to charge us for every cent of it MULTIPLE times. If sony gets their way you will buy spiderman at least 3 times, UMD,DVD, BDROM. If HDDVD gets it way you buy it once and it works on everything. To be fair the drawback is that you dont own the copies unlike BDRom where you can sell each copy you own, but personally Id prefer the right to use the content a purchased however i want when ever I want.
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I cant help but think that the vast majority of posters to this site are just as idiotic as the people they rant against.
1) the 360 will use 12x DVD which is faster then a 1x, 2x BDROM. That being said, unless sony intends to release in 2007 or spend a buttload of money expect 2x BDroms on ps3 with load times longer then that found on the 360.
2)BDROM is NOT the media of the future, high capacity flash cards and mini HDDS are.
WHY? because of what HDDVD is trying to accomplish. HDDVD wants to set up content management which allows CONSUMERS to make LEGAL copies of intellectual property. This means you buy the movie ONCE and you can play it on your HDDVD player, stream it to another room in your house through a 360, load it into you video IPOD on the go, or import tracks to your MP3 player. the BluRay groups wants you to purchase the SAME intellectual property MULTIPLE times for different formats, IE buy DVD version, buy bluray version, buy UMD, version, buy CD soundtrack etc. If the movie studios have their way you will be paying $100 for the same exact intellectual content which they made ONCE but you must purchase MULTIPLE times to use in other methods. MS and the HDDVD group wants to eliminate that and let media/content be interchangable through all types of devices. This is what the computer companies back HDDVD, but its also whay movie companies back BluRay because use stupid consumers are so taken with the idea of bigger is better that we dont realize Hollywood plans to charge us for every cent of it MULTIPLE times. If sony gets their way you will buy spiderman at least 3 times, UMD,DVD, BDROM. If HDDVD gets it way you buy it once and it works on everything. To be fair the drawback is that you dont own the copies unlike BDRom where you can sell each copy you own, but personally Id prefer the right to use the content a purchased however i want when ever I want.