PS3 Fanboy

You're probably one of those idiots who thinks he's smart.

And you're probably one of the people who agree with the original poster.

DRM is *not* completely mandated by Apple. Steve Jobs has said himself, that he would like to see DRM go the way of the dodo birds, but it just won't happen. Music labels want to make money, and the only way they can do it, is have music that you can't play on every single device.

You want music thats drm free, use bittorrent.

Grown a brain before telling someone else to get one.

BTW: Their are parts of OS X that are open source. Not all, but some. They keep it in house, because it stay secure and they can make more money. Thats the way it is, and probably how it always will be.

Sony, like Microsoft, and Apple, do not care about the end consumer. Their goal is to make money, and the people working under them are trying to make money. Without it, that can't be 'nice'

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You do realize that 2/3 of 18m is 12m, right? That's the same install base as the PS3 you just cited.

Why did everyone vote up James? The original poster said 1/3 not 2/3. Am I missing something here, or is everyone really that dumb?

What I think James is saying is that if theres 18million 360's and 1/3 dont have HDD's, the remaining 2/3 that do, would equal 12 million 360's which is the same number of ps3's.

To go further than that though we established theres about the same amount of 360s with HDD's as there are playstations. If you look into that 12m of 360's, id say probably 3/5ths of those are still on 20Gb HDDs. Which by now are probably closed if not already filled with videos/demos/game saves/etc... so really theres like a tiny margin of systems with enough capacity for it to download full length videos and still play store demos and what not. Not to mention visual quality as someone mentioned with their HDMI discrepancies, and scaler.

Know what I mean? If your willing to go the M$ route, why not just use Windows Media Center or whatever on your PC and buy the required cable. Beats paying for online service, paying for the video and then paying for the proprietary HDD your gunna need when you run out of space.

PS3 has upgradable hard drives so it is the optimal system. The 360 may have the install base but their hard drives will fill up as well while the PS3 users can get new ones.

Lets extrapolate those numbers, With every PS3 being sold has at least a 40GB HDD, and only 2/3rds of the 360's having one (and the majority of them only 20GB), PS3 will very quickly pull ahead as the platform of choice for digital distribution (and Blu-ray distribution). PS3 = win/win Best platform for digital downloads, best platform for disc based media too..

Ahh, I see now. Thanks for the explanation. :)

The PS3 "had" an upgradeable hard drive. When Fony killed off support for 750Gb and 1Tb drives in 2.20 without a word, thats when they showed they can't be trusted IMO.

Whatever their vid download service is when they finally cough it up, they had better make sure I can copy it off my PS3's original HDD (which is the only one Fony will ever talk to you about) and on to an open device I can trust.

@ Mythagoz - its your own fault... Sony only supports internal hard disk drives and with the maximum capacity currently available at 500GB using greater sized external ones is at your own risk.

Full 1080P may not be actually possible. It would almost certainly be compressed, but, it may be close if they handle it right.

doesn't apple TV let you download movies at 1080p? or does it max out at 720?

The wimpy AppleTV device can't display 1080p, not enough horsepower. 720p is the best you'll get out of it.

"Apple also offers 4Mbps H.264 720p HD movies for rental via iTunes.[59] For comparison, broadcast and cable HD movies are 19Mbps MPEG2 720p[citation needed] and Blu-ray HD movies are up to 40Mbps H.264 or VC-1 1080p" ~ Wikipedia