Xbox 360 Fanboy

Video Marketplace will be good if you want to rent a movie or DL a tv show here and there. HD-DVD will be needed if you want to buy a movie. I doubt we will be able to buy a HD movie outright on the Marketplace.

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This might come from a development kit HDD, but as I know of, even the dashboard on the devkits usually say 8GB because the rest of the space is usually used by the development launchpad for putting development game data onto the buscar HDD (the big white HDD you see on devkits) for testing, so they don't have to burn discs repetitively. So this does rise the rumor again that they might be releasing a bigger HDD. I hope they do release a 100GB HDD, especially with all the media features the plan on adding. Plus, it wouldn't be too hard for MS to do, just slap a bigger SATA 2.5 inch HDD in the case, update the dash code for FATX to use the extra space, and that's it.

If they do release this, this will fix the one "mess up" for this generation. I always considered the "Duke" controller for Xbox is the one Xbox "mess up" that very thankfully got fixed with the S, which was WORLDS better. Now I believe the "mess up" this generation with the 360 is the 20GB HDD, its already easily getting clogged by demos, music and soon, videos. Its time for MS to step up and fix it with the 100GB HDD.

Like I said in another post, I think they should include the current 20GB HDD in the Core and include the bigger HDD in the Platinum system. That way, both systems have a HDD (which can also finally lift the Xbox Live Arcade limit, which is set to the size of memory units just because of the Core systems), and the people who want to pay more can get a bigger HDD, like with the PS3.

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My mistake, I meant to say 17GB, not 8GB.

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I wasn't planning to buy an HD-DVD player anyway, it's too expensive FOR ME, and I don't even have a 60HZ TV, imagine HD :P
So for me all this HD stuff is useless...

Apart from that, I don't think microsoft would sell less HD-DVD players becouse of the Video marketplace becouse that is nice to use every once in a while, but it doesn't work for the full enjoyment of movies... Sure everyone will use it, but I doubt anyone will see this as a replacement for the HD-DVD player

Greeeeeetz Glenn

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No way is this a replacement. You'd be able to store what, 3 movies tops on a 100G drive (excluding saved games, demos, etc)? That's nothing. Not to mention, who wants to wait while you download a 20-30G movie? Nope, HD-DVD is the way to go.

That said, I *LOVE* being able to download trailers and such in HD. And it'd be cool to download shows that you may have missed during the week in HD. I'd also probably pay money to download and watch Battlestar Gallactica in HD a day or two after it originally airs on SciFi. :)

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Even though I don't have an HDTV, I'm giving serious thought to picking up the HD-DVD player this holiday. The included remote and King Kong disc essentially drop the price of the player itself to $130 or so, which is a pretty good deal as far as I'm concerned. Once it stops shipping with King Kong ("For a limited time," remember), that "baseline" price goes up to about $170, so I'm inclined to pick up the unit sooner rather than later. Which reminds me, has there been any word as to how long that "limited time" will last?

As to the announced downloadable content... I doubt I'll be purchasing much video from Marketplace, if any at all. Budget and SDTV issues aside, having something tangible that I can take with me, watch when and where I please, and that looks good on the shelf is more important to me than the convenience of a service like Marketplace. It's the same reason the only content I get from the iTunes Store is "funded" by Pepsi bottlecap codes or other promotional tie-ins. If I'm spending my money, I'd like to have something to show for it.

Rant mode off.

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to xyzzy,
I would definately pay some money to see some battlestar in HD, I love that show it has some great storyline and nice space battles.

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They've already said that movies will be 4-5gigs, and after you download them, you have 14 days to watch, after watching you only have 24 hours to watch the movie as many times as you'd like. After that 24 hours, you might as well delete. So, you can figure maybe 5 movies that you would have maximum at a given time.

TV shows are the more permanent sales, however, you will be able to download them over and over again after purchasing. So, you could delete, then redownload if you ever wanted to watch again. I own some TV Shows on DVD and have watched them once or twice and that's it. I have a few shelves of TV Show DVD's that haven't been watched in a VERY long time...

Now, if MS is going to bring out a larger HDD, they need to do it RIGHT.

They need to have it like the XSATA device. They need to come out with like 50GB drives that would go in between your 20Gig and the 360. That way, yo could keep everything that's already on your 20GB drive, and just add another drive on. Also, if you wanted to, you could just keep adding to them, like an Array. They stressed CHOICE.. This would give you the choice of wanting to add more storage, and to be able to add in 50GB stages.. I'm a huge TV Show fan, so I might want a few drives to be able to store everything on there.. SO, I just add a few 50GB drives and voila, 220Gigs of storage at my fingertips..

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If this does come out, I dearly hope that MS sets up some kind of trade in program that lets existing owners of a 20GB HD upgrade to a 80GB (or 100GB or whatever it'll be) but have all their data transfered.

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The downloadable HD content is not a replacement for HD-DVD. It is only 720p and the bitrate of the video is WAY lower than HD-DVD.

On my 64" tv i need the highest resolution and the highest bitrate possible.

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i call photoshop until someone else confirms

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I'm fairly certain that the screen shot you have is from a Dev Kit, which have larger hard drives than the retail kits.

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not interested in the HD-DVD player simply because not ALL HD movies will be on HD-DVD's or even Blu-ray disks it's a chose sides issue. On demand is the real future for HD content! why buy disks when you can download them?

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The 7 looks a little lopsided I have to say, I think it looks a little bit fake or it might just be me but coming from recent events this is deffiniatly plausible just not likly for hd movie storage, hddvd is 25gb so u could store around 3 or so like one said in an earlier post and although maybe just downloading and storing them to watch once might work...it would take too long to download them, right now it takes forever to download 400mb rainbow vegas demo seriously and i have fios..and its connected directly not wirelessly so yea

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20 - 30 Gigs for a movie? They would have to be using a pretty crappy codec! The more than likely will use the same codec that they use one the WMVHD Dvd's they have released (Terminator 2 in 1080P fit on one side of a DVD...can't remember if it was dual layer or not). Still...will definately need a bigger HD to store moview and TV shows in HD.

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I love the downloadable content. There are plenty of movies I won't buy on HD-DVD that I'll be renting through that, but I'm a big fan of DVD extras and you won't get those with the download service.

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Um, it's a dev kit. They have larger hard drives.

Do we have to go through this every time someone takes a photo of the available HD space on a dev kit?

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I still want an HD-DVD. The downloadable content will be more of a spur of the moment solution for entertainment rather than having to go out to get a movie/tv show. I still want a tangible disk when buying movies I know I will want to watch more than once and keep for a long time. Also for the possibility of resale.

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Yes, I still want an HD-DVD player. You will not be able to purchase movies over the download service. This has already been stated. I am very interested in the download service, but without a much larger hard drive, for a less than absurd price, it is more or less worthless.

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boris schneider-johne sez:
there is no larger hdd for the 360 announced. images like this above are just taken from developer-stations which have a large hdd.

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