Yeah, until your HDD crashes or you decide to sell your XBOX for the next model. You know you can't move your movies or games to the next machine, right?
uhh thats exactly why live kicks so much ass... you can lose the hard drive and recover all your content and can move to any 360 and redownload it there. xbox live content is tied to your account.
@aaron, I think MS will push something like SilverLight, which means that content will not be stored on your PC/HDD. This means that you will probably need to pay to watch the same content again, just like Pay Per View on cable/satellite.
Yeah. Cheap. But you can't watch stuff if you're travelling, even if you've paid for that content.
Xbox Live is great but until they start letting people download movies for keeps it won't catch on. I rarely rent a movie. Don't underestimate the will of people who want to buy things that are tangible. Huge storage capacity is not mainstream or affordable either. It is going to be some time before downloading catches on.
Transformers was an awesome movie from my point of view, but I really don't give a crap what he thinks about high def discs.
Xbox live got its name for the awesome online experience for games!! not for downloading movies!! i think neither Sony nor Microsoft should include movies to they're consoles (!) online experience!! even then because of piracy i don't think the downloadable movies will be good (thinking on torrents and newsgroups)
To Mp3: If/when Solid State Drives become the standard for storage devices, things will start looking up with digital media. Less worry on them crashing due to a small amount of mechanical parts involved compared to conventional HDDs. They will eventually dominate due to their lower failure rate.
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I'll take cheap downloadable HD movies over expensive boxes with movies in them any day.
Yeah, until your HDD crashes or you decide to sell your XBOX for the next model. You know you can't move your movies or games to the next machine, right?
uhh thats exactly why live kicks so much ass... you can lose the hard drive and recover all your content and can move to any 360 and redownload it there. xbox live content is tied to your account.
@aaron, I think MS will push something like SilverLight, which means that content will not be stored on your PC/HDD. This means that you will probably need to pay to watch the same content again, just like Pay Per View on cable/satellite.
Yeah. Cheap. But you can't watch stuff if you're travelling, even if you've paid for that content.
Yeah, because discs can't be corrupted or scratched ;)
Xbox Live is great but until they start letting people download movies for keeps it won't catch on. I rarely rent a movie. Don't underestimate the will of people who want to buy things that are tangible. Huge storage capacity is not mainstream or affordable either. It is going to be some time before downloading catches on.
Transformers was an awesome movie from my point of view, but I really don't give a crap what he thinks about high def discs.
Xbox live got its name for the awesome online experience for games!! not for downloading movies!! i think neither Sony nor Microsoft should include movies to they're consoles (!) online experience!! even then because of piracy i don't think the downloadable movies will be good (thinking on torrents and newsgroups)
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To Mp3: If/when Solid State Drives become the standard for storage devices, things will start looking up with digital media. Less worry on them crashing due to a small amount of mechanical parts involved compared to conventional HDDs. They will eventually dominate due to their lower failure rate.