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Re: [News] PlayStation 3 Could Win Owing to Blu-Ray, XBox360 Alienates Foreigners

  • Subject: Re: [News] PlayStation 3 Could Win Owing to Blu-Ray, XBox360 Alienates Foreigners
  • From: Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 16:39:38 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • References: <1351256.ybuxZRhfdy@schestowitz.com> <1178609378.70558.0@iris.uk.clara.net> <3575915.rvNMv0otbV@schestowitz.com>
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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ BearItAll ] on Tuesday 08 May 2007 08:29 \__
> 
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> 
>>> Pachter: PS3 Will Win Via Blu-Ray
>>> 
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | It takes a special kind of guy to want to write 207 page
>>> | reports for a living. A man of vision. A man of honor.
>>> `----
>>> 
>>>
>>
> http://kotaku.com/gaming/the-pachter-factor/pachter-ps3-will-win-via-blu+ray-258309.php
>>> 
>> 
>> That wouldn't really be a reason for Xbox360 fall further into the
>> doldrums. The Xbox can link to users computers, so they only would need the
>> one blu-ray device. Alternatively, if I remember right the xbox360 had a
>> USB connector, I suspect a lot of first time buyers of blu-ray will go for
>> an external device anyway.
>> 
>> Thinks: It just crossed my mind that a firewire connector might be needed
>> for blu-ray rather than USB, I should think that unless the device was
>> given a huge system buffer USB may not be able to keep up.
> 
> Microsoft said it would support Blut-ray if this media type won the so-called
> 'race' or 'war'.
> 

A huge system buffer cannot make up for insufficient bandwidth, though.
At least, not unless you do the download /before/ you watch anything,
but this is not streaming, this is, well, a forward/store and then watch
model, which is not the same.

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