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    • Mon Jan 14th 01:09 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Microsoft's XBox 3 Could Give It Market Supremacy
      User 139553:

      Do you really believe digital downloads are the next media? I wouldn't. You use MP3s as an example, but the truth is, MP3 sales only make up about 11% of music sales. CDs sales are still strong and still breaking records. Trust me, CDs aren't going anywhere anytime soon. The same is going to be true for Blu-rays. HD-DVD has lost this war, and the sooner you realize this, the sooner you can move on like the rest of us. Paramount and Universal are huge studios, but they only make up a combined total of 30% of the industry. It isn't looking good at all, especially with rumors, they are both no longer exclusive to HD-DVD (they may release in both). As you wait for these digital downloads, we'll all be buying the next media format (Blu-ray). Digital download is very far away, my friend. The infrastructure is not in place to do this and won't be for several years (maybe 10 or more). Think about it. An average 1080P movie will take about 30Gs. The average download speed in America is 1.5Mbps, with many still using dial-up. It would take hours to download that movie. Sure, they offer HD downloads now, but as far as I know, they are not full 1080P (they are 720p) and compressed with quality loss of both video and audio. Not to mention, I have about 550 movies. If these were in 1080P, it would take 16,000 GBs of space. Now where the hell am I going to get that from? People still want a hard copy of movies, just like people still want hard copies of CDs. It won't change for a very long time. So you sit back and wait for these downloads and the rest of us will watch our movies in glorious 1080P. Your console argument is also sickening and leads me to believe you are a lot younger than I am. You are presenting the same arguments that were presented when the PS2 launched. I'll post a link to the irony.

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    • Sun Jan 13th 07:41 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Microsoft's XBox 3 Could Give It Market Supremacy
      I don't know how any electronic that has a 33% failure rate can be considered "Well Designed". It seems they'll let anyone pretend to be a journalist, but not require them to do a lick of research anymore. I'm not even going to get into the whole XBL debacle. M$ will never have supremacy as long as hardware is involved.
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