Blu-ray: Microsoft, "Just a historic phenomenon"
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http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=34141
So exactly why if disc formats were going to be obsolete do to direct downloads, did you only choose to make the 360 have a twenty gig harddrive? Not exactly conducive to lots of downloading.
Also, how exactly am I going to watch my HD home movies of my kid? My parents' damn internet connection can barely handle Youtube for a two minute clip. Are they really going to be patient enough to wait for a 1 hour 1080p video of their grandkid? Some kind of media is necessary for HD content sharing, and I have a feeling that Blu-Ray has this all sewn up. Pull your heads out of your asses Microsoft.
In fact, aside from the download issue, wtf is the point of consumer HD camcorders right now, seeing as how there is no way to actually share these home videos with anyone without mailing them an external harddrive?
So exactly why if disc formats were going to be obsolete do to direct downloads, did you only choose to make the 360 have a twenty gig harddrive? Not exactly conducive to lots of downloading.
Also, how exactly am I going to watch my HD home movies of my kid? My parents' damn internet connection can barely handle Youtube for a two minute clip. Are they really going to be patient enough to wait for a 1 hour 1080p video of their grandkid? Some kind of media is necessary for HD content sharing, and I have a feeling that Blu-Ray has this all sewn up. Pull your heads out of your asses Microsoft.
In fact, aside from the download issue, wtf is the point of consumer HD camcorders right now, seeing as how there is no way to actually share these home videos with anyone without mailing them an external harddrive?
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Hard copies are also easier to share with friends.
I see no reason to get all worked up about it either way though.
My parents still can't even get most broadband in their area. A hi-def download would take weeks. I'm sure 20 years from now, we'll all have 100 gig/sec wireless downloads, but for the immediate future, the ultra-broadband connections needed for HD downloading just aren't common enough to warrant the abandonment of physical media.
but with bandwidth constantly getting better...
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It is? It's been pretty stagnant lately. I haven't seen broadband speed up in my area for a while now. It sure as hell isn't improving on my DSL. They can't even get me their upper package because I'm about 100ft too far away from their damn box.
Anyway, I prefer discs. If I'm ready to watch a movie, I want to do it now, not 30 minutes (or more) later. Not to mention, I want to 'own' certain movies. So far, everything on marketplace is a rental (I believe).
Of course, that's asside from what Ryno mentioned, the shitty hard drive. At MS's prices I'll NEVER upgrade my 360's hard drive. $160 - $180 for a 120GB harddrive? It must be made of titanium.
Full 1080p? Come now. I can walk down to the video, grab a disc, and be back in 8 minutes no problem. Even with my very respectable broadband connection it would take a lot longer than that.
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I can get a movie via broadband when it's 4 in the morning, when there's three feet of snow outside my door or when the video store burns to the ground because a disgruntled arsonist refuses to pay his late fees. Bandwidth is always changing for the better; access to physical media is not.
Hard copies are also easier to share with friends.
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And I think that's what they are trying to AVOID. If you want to watch a movie you PAY to watch it. No more borrowing. As shitty/sad as that will be.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7103426.stm
Full 1080p? Come now. I can walk down to the video, grab a disc, and be back in 8 minutes no problem. Even with my very respectable broadband connection it would take a lot longer than that.
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You can now at this moment watch Lost and many ABC shows in HD streaming from the website takes only a few seconds to start watching and it loads in the back ground while you watch the show so it's almost instantaneous, so there is really no real download time in regards to wait times.
Of course, that's asside from what Ryno mentioned, the shitty hard drive. At MS's prices I'll NEVER upgrade my 360's hard drive. $160 - $180 for a 120GB harddrive? It must be made of titanium.
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If you think it's bad now, I don't think the next Xbox will even come with a hard drive. What we will most likely see is the move to streaming content over the Internet even for games. This is the content provider's wet dream. No more selling (and subsequent re-selling and trade-ins of) physical copies, no more ownership (and let's be frank, we don't own the games we buy, we never have, we only buy the right to use them), it will all just be a streaming subscription service.
Some people will no doubt be left behind because of this, but this has always been the case with progress. Or maybe I should say "progress", since I'm not too stoked about it.
About videos killing the internet, hah, I can believe that. Here at work most video streaming sites are banned. Because they eat up so much of the company's bandwidth.
"HD" is very buzzworthy. This is the issue I have with the HD stuff at Revision3.com. It is HD, sure, but the bitrate is low. I'd go for a lower resolution but decent bitrate over low rate HD.
At the time with bandwidth limitations, a portable media format still has its place, and is in fact vital to many market segments. That's my point. For Microsoft to dismiss this is just silly.