Begbie

A 24" lcd monitor for $300, a small form PC $300 (Acer Revo, Asus Netbox, Zotac) that you can mount onto the back of the monitor. If you already have a PS3 or Xbox you can plug that into the monitor for gaming. Spend the remaining $900 on booze, pot, and rubbers.

Just in time to replace my dead pmp.

I can haz???

The only way for HD-DVD to survive is for Toshiba to manufacture $2 blank HD-DVD and release a $50 HD-DVD burner bundled with AnyHD-DVD and instructions for backing up BR movies onto HD-DVDs.

Jason Brown is right. The components inside Apple computers are the same generic parts found in every other computer brands. Look at the new 20in iMacs - premium price for a crappy TN panel. Also, if they are supposedly so reliable, why do they only have a one year warranty. Companies who manufacture good components have warranties of 3 years to lifetime and without buying an extended warranty. Both the Samsung and Apple monitors share the same panel manufacturers but the Samsung has a 3 year warranty and Apple only has a 1 year. Even the CrapBox 360 is now 3 years. For the price Apple is charging for their hardware, it should be a minimum 3 years standard.

Whoever thinks that a disc with a higher storage capacity will win the format war because more info can be stored on one disc is mistaken. Movie studios don't want a single disc for movies and extras because then they can't justify a higher price. No one will pay $50-60 for one season of a TV show on a single disc. They will pay for a 5-6 disc set because of the perceived notion of paying for $10 a disc as a good bargain. Also, studios like to release multiple editions of a movie with higher disc count thus justifying a higher price (ie. LOTR).

Any scenes with the hunchback

"Your telling us that you think if the PS3 was priced at $299 that it woulnd't sink the Wii and the 360. What r u eight? That dosen't make any senseat all. When ppl bash the PS3, the thing they bitch about the most is the price, and you think that if it was $299 right now, you wouldn't want one. Okay. Well how about you go with your parents to walmart and grab me one of those $100 HD-DVD players genius."

My point was if both console was priced the same, PS3 would annihilate everyone.
People do care about price, that's why PS3s are sitting on the shelf and the Wiis are not. Try reading between the lines.

And outside of Japan, no one cares about hi-def discs. Chinese companies don't want to paid any royalties so that's why they developed their own EVD or FVD or whatever it's called. If Toshiba relinquishes that royalty, they could get China to flood the market with cheap HD-DVD players.
Or mostly likely hi-def discs won't catch on in China, Taiwan, SE Asia, etc because right now it is possible to buy a legit dvd for a few dollars and a bootleg for 50 cents. No one will pay $30 for a movie or $50 for a game. That's why MS and Sony are not releasing their consoles in China.

The next gen discs will probably die out like DVD-audio and SACD. Upconverting players like Oppo and Helios can do such a good job with existing dvds that the quality isn't significant enough between the current disc and new gen discs for the masses to change.

Microsoft sucks because they are monopolistic bastards, blah, blah ,blah.
It seems that it is possible to load Windows onto any computer (Dell, Sony, Lenovo, HP, Apple, DIY, etc) but Apple OS can only work on an Apple computer. Which is more monopolistic?

When Cletus and Bobbi-Sue goes into a Walmart and sees a HD-DVD player for $100 and a BR player for $600, which player do you think they will buy? The clerk will if you want to see a Disney movie you will have to buy the $600 player. Cletus will say "I sure ain't gonna pay $600 so you tell them folks at Disney to make the disk for the $100 one." Studios have no vested interest in which format will win as long as they can make a sale. If the masses decides to skip the optical discs and adopt the 300gb hologram disc, the studios will make movies for that instead.

Why are the PS3s collecting dust on the shelf and the Wii is sold out every where? If both systems are priced the same, who do you think would win?