From: "Rich Gauszka" 

No problem finding Xbox 360s.  Microsoft if it wishes to use it as a
multimedia video platform really needs to upgrade the size of the hard
drive as 20 gig is rather pitiful nowadays. Even the rumored 360 with hdmi
and a 120 gig drive seems a bit small



"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
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>> The one weird thing Microsoft did for it's add on HD player is still not
>> provide an HDMI 1080p solution unless you use the VGA add-on
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> That wouldn't hurt me much, I just a month ago joined the 1080i crowd and
> I don't own an XBox.
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>> FWIW around here ( Detroit ) while the Wii is still very hard to find
>> Sony PS3s are starting to gather some dust on the shelves.
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> That is pretty interesting!  How about Xbox's?
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> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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>>I can see the new ads - Xbox 360 made for porn 
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>> The one weird thing Microsoft did for it's add on HD player is still not
>> provide an HDMI 1080p solution unless you use the VGA add-on
>>
>> FWIW around here ( Detroit ) while the Wii is still very hard to find
>> Sony PS3s are starting to gather some dust on the shelves.
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>> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
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>>>> One of the big problems they have with Blu-ray is its
expense, followed
>>>> by its market share. "Blu-ray has superior quality,
yes," said a
>>>> spokesperson for porn studio Bangbros, "but HD DVD is easier to
>>>> produce, cheaper to produce and there are more HD DVD
players in homes
>>>> than there are Blu-ray players, for example in the Xbox 360."
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>>> That sounds like the best argument for HD DVD than the fallacious porn
>>> industry only one, it's why the porn industry is choosing it...
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>>> This is *exactly* the same as beta vs vhs -- the quality was better with
>>> beta, the players and tapes are cheaper to make for VHS.
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>>> Sony ought to have learn their lesson with beta. 
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>>> "Rich Gauszka" 
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>>>> The war is over 
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>>>> http://www.tgdaily.com/2007/01/11/ces2007_hddvd_blu_ray/
>>>>
>>>> Las Vegas (NV) - Knowing their audience quite well, the adult
>>>> entertainment industry holds their annual get together in
Las Vegas to
>>>> coincide with the CES. There is also a very pertinent
crossover between
>>>> the adult and tech industries - porn has a tendency to drive, and be
>>>> driven, by technology. Which means HD DVD when it comes to high-def.
>>>>
>>>> Quite famously in the war between Betamax and VHS the latter won
>>>> especially because the adult industry preferred it. If you've been
>>>> around long enough, you probably remember that the very early home
>>>> video rental stores were primarily responsible for driving
Betamax out
>>>> of the market. And those stores carried almost exclusively
pornographic
>>>> content.
>>>>
>>>> Putting myself through the arduous trek through the floor
of the adult
>>>> expo I did a quick straw poll on, the virtues of HD DVD
versus Blu-ray,
>>>> and the answer from a dozen companies, big and small, including Pink
>>>> Visual and Bangbros editor-in-chief, is going into a
single direction:
>>>> HD DVD is the preferred format. Period.
>>>>
>>>> One of the big problems they have with Blu-ray is its
expense, followed
>>>> by its market share. "Blu-ray has superior quality,
yes," said a
>>>> spokesperson for porn studio Bangbros, "but HD DVD is easier to
>>>> produce, cheaper to produce and there are more HD DVD
players in homes
>>>> than there are Blu-ray players, for example in the Xbox 360."
>>>>
>>>> Pink Visual heavily complained about the fact that Blu-ray
discs cannot
>>>> be replicated and a range of other studios, who did not want to be
>>>> mentioned by name indicated that the cost of going with
Blu-ray cancels
>>>> the technology as a possible HD solution for this
industry. "Only
>>>> bigger studios can afford Blu-ray, and even then it's not
economical,"
>>>> we were told.
>>>>
>>>> It would seem that either Blu-ray has to do some catching up very
>>>> quickly. But we got the strange feeling that HD DVD has
won the format
>>>> war already, at least in the porn industry.
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