Rumor: Blu-ray equipped 360 ships Q3 - Page 3

21-05-2008, 11:25 AM

I usually walk to video store and get some grub on way home, If your going spend few hours in the dark watching a film, you needs to get some fresh air and exersize getting the bleedin yoke, I just think downloading rentals is pure lazyness.

xxquepasaxx · 21-05-2008, 05:08 PM

thats why i have netflix

vote4fairtax · 21-05-2008, 05:21 PM

blockbuster online!

kicks netflix in the nuts!

friedkarma · 21-05-2008, 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by bevo1981

how long does it take to download a 2 hour movie?

Maybe 60 seconds to buffer enough to allow decent streaming.

Boost King · 21-05-2008, 05:51 PM

Well then surely streaming wont be HD quality?

vote4fairtax · 21-05-2008, 07:44 PM

is FOXHD HD quality? That comes over the air. why couldnt something with a nice buffer do the same?

Blasterpez · 21-05-2008, 08:06 PM

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Originally Posted by friedkarma

Maybe 60 seconds to buffer enough to allow decent streaming.

how fast is your connection?

rabbitc · 22-05-2008, 02:26 AM

No broadband connection can support full HD streaming at present.

vote4fairtax · 22-05-2008, 05:31 AM

they will..
and Verizon is bringing it to you baby

with LTE tech

rabbitc · 22-05-2008, 06:17 AM

oh yeah - how fast then?

nevermind - found it on wiki - 100mb/s - pretty impressive.

My only concern is the amount of RFR that it's gonna generate.

red123red · 22-05-2008, 10:05 AM

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Originally Posted by oli

I'll believe it when it comes out of a MS PR's mouth.

me 2 coz if they where gona do it would probley be intruduced with the elite, supose we will just have to wait and see

Blasterpez · 22-05-2008, 04:00 PM

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Originally Posted by vote4fairtax

they will..
and Verizon is bringing it to you baby

with LTE tech

How much will that cost? And is it only going to be in the continental US? for what i pay here for my highspeed, i could get kick ass speeds down south there.

vote4fairtax · 22-05-2008, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Blasterpez

How much will that cost? And is it only going to be in the continental US? for what i pay here for my highspeed, i could get kick ass speeds down south there.

Price.. umm.. probably not cheap at first
Where - It is eventually going to be a world wide standard for most companies. both CDMA (verizon/sprint) and GSM (ATT/tmobile/vodaphone) carriers in the US and abroad are going to be switching to it.

Verizon is going to have it first in the US by years (parent company Vodaphone helped develope it along side Nokia) and ATT is going to rent it from Vodaphone. Verizon's is supposed to be up by 2010, and ATT is 2012/2013. Sprint is getting WiMax (wide area WiFi) up and running next year supposedly on a wide scale.. tests are already getting started if you live in DC.
Also, Verizon's fiber optic cable/phone/internet service is expanding exponentially across the US as we speak.
Comcast is going to die!

hollywood21639 · 23-05-2008, 10:45 AM

I think they would just do an add-on drive since the read speeds of blu-ray drives are no where near the speeds of dvd drives and would render most xbox 360 games unplayable. Unless they have some kind of dual player built in that has the abillity to do the 12x speed of the 360's drive.

vote4fairtax · 23-05-2008, 01:21 PM

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Originally Posted by hollywood21639

I think they would just do an add-on drive since the read speeds of blu-ray drives are no where near the speeds of dvd drives and would render most xbox 360 games unplayable. Unless they have some kind of dual player built in that has the abillity to do the 12x speed of the 360's drive.

it doesnt really matter if they include one or not.. I still dont think they will, but regardless, the BR drive will only be used for media and not games, so dont go gettin your hopes up. If it is included, it will, of course, be a dual laser..