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Like a lot of people, I've been sitting back watching the HD DVD/Blu-ray war unfold. I've been reluctant to jump on any one bandwagon or the other for fear of wasting a LOT of money on a modern version of the Betamax, but I have been eyeing the HD DVD format pretty closely. I think this announcement may just be enough to push me over the edge:The land that forgot the Xbox are first to have their HD DVD add-on announced, due to hit overseas streets on November 17th for

10/20/2005 04:09 PM: New Xbox 360 Controllers Cross Platforms by Hooz
In an effort to make the gaming experience equally enjoyable whether you play on the Xbox 360 or a Windows XP-based computer, Microsoft has announced the retail availability of the Xbox 360 Controller...

06/24/2005 02:02 PM: Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony's PS3 - A Hardware Discussion by duke
Anandtech has decided to spend some time discussing the hardware that will power the next generations of consoles, namely Sony's PS3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360. The Xenon processor was designed from the...

05/13/2005 02:48 PM: XBox 360 Details by duke
While this might not exactly fall in line with our regular news posts, I'm sure a lot of people are excited about the prospects of the next generation XBox console. C|Net has a lot of information on t...

AniMill Render Gardener Posts: 86 Joined: 2001-06-09

#39273 Posted on: 09/20/2006 11:23 PM I just wish these two camps could have agreed upon the format from the outset. This is not like the DVD-R versus DVD+R issue, BluRay and HD-DVD are completely incompatable - not unlike the Beta versus VHS. The biggest issue I have with whole HD media is the exteem copy prevention issues: one of the biggest is the possibility that some manufactures will require you to keep a closed loop digital chain of only their products, or products frendly to their system (conspiracy theory). I've already seen this issue with my Toshiba DLP monitor where the HDMI connector is rejecting any source I have other than a Samsung DVD upconverting player w/ DVI and HDCP. Curtis Sponsler Creative Director | President - AniMill Offices in Ocoee,FL & Burbank, CA

works4me SMP Newbie Posts: 2 Joined: 2005-04-15

#39291 Posted on: 09/24/2006 04:13 AM Fuggetaboutit! Not Why not but the PS3 for 600 and get the same result without some kludgy extra device to clutter up an already full rack. Microshaft is doing what it does best. Doleing out what it thinks we need ready or not. They are both good devices but I would prefer my form and function to be in the most efficient format.

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