Xbox 360 saw record breaking Black Friday sales

I don't think Blu Ray will last long. Standard DVDs will, but we seem to be leaning toward alternate formats for HD movies etc, kinda like streaming netflix style. I do love the features the xbox has to offer. It is quite a step up from the ps3 in terms of versatility.

@DBoyFlex: Though I recognize where you are coming from, I think you are a bit off there.

As there are still many people who prefer physical discs that streaming/downloading. I don't own a Blu-Ray player but if I did, I would rather have the physical disc than just a digital copy of it. Why? Because I like to be able to hold my purchases, or have some sort of a "collection" per say. Though I use Netflix, and certainly would use them for Blu-Ray if I had the opportunity, I would still by physical Blu-Ray discs of my absolute favorite movies that I knew I would watch over and over again.

So perhaps Blu-Ray will never get as popular as standard DVDs, just because the average of the masses do not care about the extra fine quality of HD movies but those who do, I really think most would rather have a physical disc copy.

What a piece of crud comment system. I wrote a long response, and it didn't post. It didn't send a verification to my email... it just disappeared. This has happened multiple times today. Rubbish.

Being versatile in HD options is certainly a big factor.

I was an early adopter of HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. HD-DVD is dead, and Blu-Ray is sub-par. While i enjoyed lossless audio, the compression used and codecs on a majority of BR discs were horrible. A few companies managed to do it right, WB being one. Watch talledega nights, the grain, my god. Grain, artifacts. Just because it's in a higher resolution shouldn't mean its HD if it looks like s***.

I'm not saying HD-DVD, netflix HD, or HD content on marketlace is immune to this. I rented Atlantis (yes the disney movie) on marketplace, and i was surprised how insane the quality was(tho animated usually always looks amazing in HD). Also pleasantly surprised with how The Office looks in HD on netflix, which i have yet to compare but looked better than on marketplace at highest speed quality.

Microsoft gives us options. Everyone calls them evil but you have to give them props for what they do.

Congrats on your impending downgrade. i know I would rather have no hard drive with no room to dowload tons of demos and videos.

/sarcasm

I'll be keeping my Elite TYVM.

Well my Elite crapped out in October, I got sent a replacement Elite on 11/4 and that one crapped out on 11/19. I'm awaiting the repair on that one as we speak. Thanks but no thanks. And good luck with that. /sarcasm

BTW, I'm keeping the 120gig HDD when I sell it. I'll sell my old 20gig HDD with it. This is all assuming I can find a Jasper. I will take my chances with the latest possible technology inside as opposed to the continued cycle of crap that MS will send me after each breakdown.

I'm too invested to give up on the 360 all together and I'm too addicted to it to not be able to play it every 4 weeks. TYVM.

your 360, your not using it right. If you got RROD in about 2 weeks, maybe your the problem and not the 360. My first one ran a good 3 years and my second one has been running like a champ ever since.

Consider yourself extremely lucky then. My electronics are better taken care of then my own body! :-) My 360 sits on top of a stereo cabinet with nothing at all around it. The power brick, same thing. I don't have all day gaming sessions either.

The problem is MS sends you someone else's headache. Or just fixes your headache and it doesn't last. It sucks cause I love the 360 but it just wasn't designed well. I have stereo equipment that's much older and it's still going strong.