My contention was I did not care about Gates's thoughts are on HD. The Xbox360 could have been a viable contender for bringing in HD content (albeit probably 720p variety) had they shipped the premium system with a hard drive larger than 20 gigs. They could've also made it a decent DVR had they not required it to depend upon a MCE PC on the same network, which is a fatal flaw in my opinion.
Is Sony wrong to go with MPEG2? Probably. It remains to be seen if it actually generates less artifacts (which I doubt) than better MPEG4/H.264 compression.
My point is, I think Microsoft is backing the wrong horse in this format war, and its compression is inferior. And I'm not going to shed a tear if Sony refuses to implement any of their technology into the Blu-Ray format. In fact, I applaud it. But yes, I don't like Sony clinging to the past with MPEG2. Show us video confirmed by an independent panel illustrating the actual benefits of HD content in MPEG2 over H.264; otherwise, they can stuff it. Its not like I was going to be buying *Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle* on Blu-Ray in either case. :)
“The other one is a biggie, and it's something very noticeable in the videos: touch sensitivity is pretty bad. Using the virtual keyboard proved to be far too painful, and we're pretty sure it wasn't multitouch-friendly.”
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My contention was I did not care about Gates's thoughts are on HD. The Xbox360 could have been a viable contender for bringing in HD content (albeit probably 720p variety) had they shipped the premium system with a hard drive larger than 20 gigs. They could've also made it a decent DVR had they not required it to depend upon a MCE PC on the same network, which is a fatal flaw in my opinion.
Is Sony wrong to go with MPEG2? Probably. It remains to be seen if it actually generates less artifacts (which I doubt) than better MPEG4/H.264 compression.
My point is, I think Microsoft is backing the wrong horse in this format war, and its compression is inferior. And I'm not going to shed a tear if Sony refuses to implement any of their technology into the Blu-Ray format. In fact, I applaud it. But yes, I don't like Sony clinging to the past with MPEG2. Show us video confirmed by an independent panel illustrating the actual benefits of HD content in MPEG2 over H.264; otherwise, they can stuff it. Its not like I was going to be buying *Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle* on Blu-Ray in either case. :)