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Originally Posted by videoworx
What Ganthc is saying is that the HD Drive for the Xbox is a drive in an external enclosure - utterly useless without an Xbox or Windows PC (ergo, it isn't a standalone device, it's just like a HD-DVD drive in a laptop).
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Which has nothing to do with why someone would buy/use it.
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Originally Posted by videoworx
The PS3 is a media center (as Sony puts it), which has a built-in ability to play Blu-Ray movies - much like a HTPC can play Blu-Ray movies and games.
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Of which about 17% use for Blu Ray playback, and others
might use it, but who knows.
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Originally Posted by videoworx
Just because person x bought a PS3 to play games, doesn't mean he won't decide to buy Blu-Ray movies when he upgrades his TV next year (which is what Sony is betting on). PS3 owners are all potential Blu-Ray movie customers - and it will be up to the studios to convince them that DVDs aren't good enough anymore.
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Potential is a good thing for fledgling technology.
Let me ask you this. If you were selling a technology, which would you rather be behind? The technology that
might be used ( Blu Ray/PS3 ) or the tech that has no other purpose ( HDAO )?
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