arstechnica.com — With the sudden and unexpected announcement from Warner that the studio would be abandoning HD DVD titles in favor of Blu-ray, it seemed to many observers that the high-def format war was all over, bar the shouting.
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Plus PS3 has media streaming capabilities, awesome upscaling, and other media functionality. It's the best stand-alone media center there is especially if you own a PSP for Remote Play.
joeb4everJan 20, 2008
with the amount of seeds you can probably download around 1GB a day. I saw live free or die hard blu ray rip is 22gb. Thats 22 days!!!Off the top of my head, HDMI has about 3GB/s of data streaming through it average for a 1080p movie. I wish my internet was that fast.VOD HD only does 720p(atleast where i live) and that's not the most stable stream....for now
blergleJan 20, 2008
22GB was downloaded in just under three days here, and that was actually relatively slow. The average HD movie I have seen is around 5-8GB. Not always 1080p right now, but so what? Do you think broadband speeds are going to get faster or slower in the future? My local cable company is testing 100MBit, and offering VoD over their service. That's live streaming in HD.If you want an indicator of how many people are actually downloading 1080p movies RIGHT NOW, go to a torrent site and search for 1080. Anyone who claims people don't download 1080 is either uninformed or in denial. The evidence is right there to see.Also I don't know if you have noticed but Microsoft are currently offering HD movies for download via XBL, and Apple just announced online HD movie rentals via iTunes and AppleTV. Sure those solutions require broadband and so on, however doesn't BluRay require investment in a player and also internet connection to license your DVD whenever they update the crypto?Like I say - the future is downloading.
bulloxJan 21, 2008
you're not your
usb2point0Jan 25, 2008
ok, blu-ray, LISTEN UPyou NEED to create a CONCRETE spec in the next few months, called Blu-Ray Final Draft or something like that. Because this will NOT work for consumers if you keep changing it. Even if you have firmware upgrades, this is AMERICA, many people are stupid when it comes to electronics.
itux1985Feb 3, 2008
"Sony finally gets to play its trump card: the PlayStation 3, which has clearly emerged as one of the best Blu-ray players on the market..."-I don't know about anybody else but my blu-ray player stopped working after the 2.10 firmware patch came out. I wonder if I'm the only one that this happend too....