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[Policani's Digital Media Blog] Engadget writes, "In part one of our interview with Bill Gates, published yesterday, we chatted with him about the next Xbox console, whether or not Microsoft is going to come out with a competitor for the PlayStation Portable, and the future of Windows Mobile. In today’s second and final installment we asked him about HD-DVD vs. Blu-ray, IPTV, Windows Media Center and DTV, and why the Tablet PC has struggled so much in the marketplace." [ more...
Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.
[Big Bad Reviews] PlayStation 3 launch - Joystiq: Engadget& Joystiq’s live coverage of Sony’s PlayStation 3 launch: "Sony’s let go of the final specs and shots of the PlayStation 3. Here you go! * It will support Blu-ray (obviously), DVD+-R/W... Microsoft is claiming the Xbox 360 will do); it will have 256MB system RAM 3.2GHz, and 256MB GDDR VRAM
[Roaming Fees May Apply...] ps3 oh my..: joystiq has more photos, including images of the dangerous looking new controller design. the controllers are wireless so its nice to see the nintendo gamecube feature (they were the first console to officially support wireless controllers as a first party) become today's standard as both the ps3 and the xbox 360 support wireless controllers.
[Computer Alchemy] The Engadget Joystiq Interview: Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft: Number two, because you do have the network connectivity, whether you have a Media Center PC or not.You can put an awfully big hard disk on a regular PC and plug into this ecosystem, we have plenty of extensibility interms of storage. And then number three, you take the IP TV work we’re doing, and that technology can run on a PC, on aset top box, it can run on an Xbox. So there will be, in conjunction with the work we do with the video deliverycompanies, particularly the telcos, who have tended to be our strongest customers for our IPTV stuff, there will be yetanother way to acquire and use video content. So you have set tops, you have the set top experience, you have the Xbox,you’ve got a big hard disk, you’ve got networked to the PC in the home, so I think there will be a lot of ways to getthat media onto the Xbox.
[hack a day - www.hackaday.com _] hackaday lazy afternoons: Also, if you wanna check out Xbox 360 (whatever) or Playstation 3 (yes yes yes) stuff, check out Joystiq and Engadget’s dual coverage! Then go download the Killzone 2 video for PS3 and wet your pants. That way you can start cracking Blu-ray and whatever before the systems are even out (you sneaky little cracker).
Engadget - www.engadget.com.: This one concerns 802.11n, the next-generation WiFi standard that hopes to boost LAN throughput to 300Mbps. Just as with the whole DVD format war, we’ve got a Sharks and Jets thang going on with two opposed camps: TGn Sync (Task Group ‘n’ synchronisation — unfortunately, not a boy band) is comprised of biggies Intel, Samsung, Sony, Nortel, Qualcomm, Philips, Panasonic and Atheros Communications lives across the lake from the WWiSE group made up of Broadcom, Airgo Networks, Motorola, Nokia, Texas Instruments, NTT and France Telecom. In the most recent round of talks in Cairns, Australia, the TGn Sync camp got up and did their number and subsequently fell 26 percent short of the 75 percent approval they need to get adoption for their plan. This is the second time the 802.11n task group has voted down a proposal, so now all eyes will be on the strongest alternative proposal to be put forth by the WWiSE camp.
TDK announces 100GB Blu-ray disc - Engadget - www.engadget.com.: Just a few days after Toshiba introduced a 45GB HD-DVD, TDK has gone all crazy on us and announced a 100GB recordable Blu-ray disc. TDK’s disc has four layers and apparently doubles the writing speed of 50GB Blu-ray discs. No word yet on when these’ll hit the market, or what sort of per disc cost we’re looking at.
Engadget - www.engadget.com.: In case you missed any of them, some highlights from the past seven days of Engadget: Xbox 360 Xbox 360 - This is it Another Xbox 360 pic Is the Xbox 360 ready for its close up? Contests
Xbox 2/Xbox 360 won’t use either Blu-ray or HD DVD? - Engadget ...: The thing everyone seems to be forgetting is that Bluray players and recorders have been extremely expensive and will continue to be for quite a while, that means the same may be true for the PS3. As with the PSP and DS the price might be higher for the PS3 than for the Nintendo Revolution or Xbox 360 not to mention the possibility of delays, which Sony is notorious for. MS' choice of using a standard dvd drive will keep costs down, could keep the cost of games down (though that benefit will never reach the consumer as per MS' style), and will make sense for more people. Bluray only really makes sense to people who have HD capable displays and while the numbers are ever increasing the fact is most people still won't have them by 2006 so they won't recieve all of the added benefits from the cost they incur to buy a PS3 over another console, assuming the PS3 does cost more, and knowing Sony, it will.
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Posted at May 21, 2005 09:12 AM
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