Xbox HD-DVD comes at a heavy price?

[Pekka]

Hmpff.. they should come up with their pricing policy soon. I am afraid that these downloads will be grossly overpriced if you take it into account that you can't even keep these. It should be the standard price of any rental. Not even close to the actual product sold on DVDs etc.

But if the pricing is OK, this will definitely will be a COOL thing.

Now, PS3 is truly screwed up.. they were before, now they are even more so.

[flash9286]

So in dollars how much is 320 xbox live points.

[Asher]

$4 USD

[Pekka]

Hmhh... I guess that's OK. But the EUro prices will be more like 8 euros anyway. The French will **** this up for all of us.

[Asher]

320 points is 3.84 Euros

http://www.gangsterpanda.com/mspc.php

[Pekka]

Damn it, they are stealing more than 4 dollars then

I think that is still doable. If this is for one movie, and they offer goodies, HDTV... it's doable in my world.

[Kuciwalker]

Do you need the add-on drive to download the movies?

[Pekka]

That's how I understood it.... not sure though.

[Pekka]

Or maybe that was if you want to use your friend's xbox..

[flash9286]

Originally posted by Pekka
Damn it, they are stealing more than 4 dollars then

I think that is still doable. If this is for one movie, and they offer goodies, HDTV... it's doable in my world.

Well that is for one episode of a tv show. Does anybody know what they will charge for a movie.

[Pekka]

oh man that's true... ouch.

[Q Classic]

Re: Xbox HD-DVD comes at a heavy price?

Originally posted by nostromo


I don't fancy watching movies with a hair drier working... At least the PS3 will be silent.

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35551

Yeah, the PS3 will be silent.

It will also be phenomenally expensive, not have any games I'm really interested in, enormously long load times, be bloated and heavy, and be weighed down by a format that's seeming more and more likely to go the way of Betamax, UMD, ATRAC, MemoryStick, MiniDisc...

[Nostromo]

I didn't say I wanted one, but the thing has some qualities.

What makes you so sure Blueray will fail? Granted, it got on a rough start, but things could pick up. Or it could go the way of Betamax. Or HD-DVD and Bluray could both go the way of SACD and DVD-audio.

[Q Classic]

I didn't say I thought Blu-ray would fail, as the format has some benefits. Indeed, I didn't say that I expected HD-DVD to succeed, either.

However, it's still a Sony-dominated format, and like I mentioned in that previous post, Sony hasn't had too much luck with their proprietary formats, the PS3 doesn't seem to be attracting the enthusiast crowd (only the fanbois), nor are any of the other Blu-ray players...

[DanS]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Do you need the add-on drive to download the movies?

Yes. These are not streaming movies, but downloaded movies. So you would need a hard drive to store the movie before watching.