If you want to use the PS3 with anything other than HDMI...you will also have a proprietary cable. The PS3 will not have a VGA cable.
As for the memory cards...the Xbox allows for any USB dveice to be plugged in and the media read off the device. So any digital camera, Music player, portable hard drive, USB thumb drive...can be plugged in and the media read directly off of the device. So your statement is a bit misleading...you actually get more plug and play functionality with the 360 even without the card readers.
The 360 unlike the PS3 is also Plays For Sure Compatible and will pay any WMA and WMV files over the network if you have Windows Media Player 11. It will also play WMA and WMV files off of external hard drives, USB thumb drives and Burned CD's or DVDs.
Now while WMA and WMV are proprietary formats...they cannot be categorized as closed. These formats are available to any company that wants to license them. Including many that do...such as Napster, Yahoo Music, Real Rhapsody, Wal-Mart Music, CinemaNow and the list goes on and on. Most web sites these days also use WMV format for video because of it's superior compression and very good quality at high compression.
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Typist @ Nov 6th 2006 9:26AM
LOL .. lets see what else is proprietary:
- Wireless protocol
- HDD (ps3 takes any laptop drive)
- AV Cable (ps3 uses std. HDMI cables)
- Memory card (wii/ps3 use std flash cards)
Yea, MS just giving you guys more choices... hahaaa..
Jon @ Nov 6th 2006 9:45AM
If you want to use the PS3 with anything other than HDMI...you will also have a proprietary cable. The PS3 will not have a VGA cable.
As for the memory cards...the Xbox allows for any USB dveice to be plugged in and the media read off the device. So any digital camera, Music player, portable hard drive, USB thumb drive...can be plugged in and the media read directly off of the device. So your statement is a bit misleading...you actually get more plug and play functionality with the 360 even without the card readers.
The 360 unlike the PS3 is also Plays For Sure Compatible and will pay any WMA and WMV files over the network if you have Windows Media Player 11. It will also play WMA and WMV files off of external hard drives, USB thumb drives and Burned CD's or DVDs.
Now while WMA and WMV are proprietary formats...they cannot be categorized as closed. These formats are available to any company that wants to license them. Including many that do...such as Napster, Yahoo Music, Real Rhapsody, Wal-Mart Music, CinemaNow and the list goes on and on. Most web sites these days also use WMV format for video because of it's superior compression and very good quality at high compression.