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[Anthonyw]

Didnt see this coming


See the link here
http://www.engadget....nloads-for-you/

720p downloads of movies and TV shows.
Will be interesting to see pricing.

[MarkH]

Fantastic!
Lets see if Sony follow suit.

[wheelz]

MarkH, on Nov 7 2006, 11:12 AM, said:

Fantastic!
Lets see if Sony follow suit.

A bit more ammo for you,watch out highjinx mark is coming    

[MarkH]

wheelz, on Nov 7 2006, 01:18 PM, said:

A bit more ammo for you,watch out highjinx mark is coming    

It has been interesting to watch the next gen console war. Microsoft seem to be getting 1 up over the PS3 just when it looks like Sony have all the momentum.

[Felix.]

Hopefully this will be a worldwide service and not just limited to US markets. In any event it's a move in the right direction and a pleasing sign of things to come. Your typical movie will be about 5GB for 720p VC-1 which is not too bad. But it's definitely nice to have that option rather than buying HD-DVDs every time for $30+ a pop plus the 3 week wait of course.

Hey Al you must be spewing that you gave up your 360 now!  

[MarkH]

felix_ler_sha, on Nov 7 2006, 01:32 PM, said:

Hopefully this will be a worldwide service and not just limited to US markets. In any event it's a move in the right direction and a pleasing sign of things to come. Your typical movie will be about 5GB for 720p VC-1 which is not too bad. But it's definitely nice to have that option rather than buying HD-DVDs every time for $30+ a pop plus the 3 week wait of course.

Hey Al you must be spewing that you gave up your 360 now!  

I was concerned about the localised content, but I have a US account also, so perhaps that will work?

[momaw]

felix_ler_sha, on Nov 7 2006, 01:32 PM, said:

Hopefully this will be a worldwide service and not just limited to US markets. In any event it's a move in the right direction and a pleasing sign of things to come. Your typical movie will be about 5GB for 720p VC-1 which is not too bad. But it's definitely nice to have that option rather than buying HD-DVDs every time for $30+ a pop plus the 3 week wait of course.

Hey Al you must be spewing that you gave up your 360 now!  

Have you download 720p previews over xbox live?  I think you will still be in for a 3 week wait for a full movie    

[Felix.]

momaw, on Nov 7 2006, 11:57 AM, said:

Have you download 720p previews over xbox live?  I think you will still be in for a 3 week wait for a full movie    

Yeah good point Momaw. Not to mention those 20GB hard drives will fill up pretty quick.

Although it's only hopefully a 3 day wait.  

[Kris-]

momaw, on Nov 7 2006, 02:57 PM, said:

Have you download 720p previews over xbox live?  I think you will still be in for a 3 week wait for a full movie    

If there are AU mirrors then it will be great! I downloaded Lost (350meg) last Friday night (S3E5) in 4.4minutes

Go 21mbit dsl

[MarkH]

I guess it will depend on a lot of things such as your connection speed and the time of day youre downloading. Either way, its a pro-active move by M$, and they also launch theironline music store in the next couple of weeks to go along with the Zune.

[momaw]

Kris-, on Nov 7 2006, 02:17 PM, said:

If there are AU mirrors then it will be great! I downloaded Lost (350meg) last Friday night (S3E5) in 4.4minutes

Go 21mbit dsl

If only I had that sort of connection  

Was that from your ISP's cache or from an actual site?

I'm currently siting on 5 hours min for each ep of Battlestar

[Anthonyw]

and rumours of the bigger HDD to go with it

http://www.engadget....retail-box-too/

Not nearly big enough though... Only 80GB.

[Kris-]

momaw, on Nov 7 2006, 03:47 PM, said:

If only I had that sort of connection  

Was that from your ISP's cache or from an actual site?

I'm currently siting on 5 hours min for each ep of Battlestar

It's with iinet adsl2+ great service. You wont get that kind of speed over the international links but certainly from local mirrors (aarnet, optus, telstra) you'll get very close!

I was using bit torrent at the time, just under 2megabytes a sec I was getting!