Playstation 3 vs. XBOX 360 - One Year Later
It has been exactly 1 year to the day since we published our PS3 vs. XBOX 360 article, written for us by a friend of mine who is a lead programmer for a game company working on all three consoles (and PC).
His conclusion was a controversial one at the time. That the XBOX 360 [...]
Buy 2 Blu-Ray movies, get 1 free
In a whacky promotion that wasn’t really noticed by anyone until now, Sony themselves are giving away Blu-Ray movies from a list of 12 (and some of them are pretty good).
However, you have to jump through a few hoops to get your free movies:
The two movies you have purchased must be from that same list [...]
XBOX 360 Elite 120GB + HD-DVD Player + 7 movies = $600
Amazon has a sweet bundle deal going on now for the recently-reduced XBOX 360 Elite Edition. Sure, we called the Elite the new Retard Edition, but at this price it’s too good a deal to pass up. Included in the bundle are:
XBOX 360 Elite Edition console with 120GB hard drive and HDMI output
Microsoft XBOX [...]
Buy a Blu-Ray player, get 5 free movies
To give sluggish summertime sales a kick in the ass, the Blu-Ray Disc Association is offering a 2 month promotion for people buying their first Blu-Ray player.
If you buy any Blu-Ray player (including a PS3) you will be able to select any 5 movies from a list of about 20. We’re not talking about [...]
Blockbuster Chooses Blu-Ray Over HD-DVD
Almost two months ago, Reuters reported that Blu-Ray was outselling HD-DVD by more than a 2-1 margin and some believed this was the beginning of the end of the format war when it came to high definition DVDs. This wasn’t particularly surprising really as Blu-Ray has more industry support (three out of the five [...]
PS3 can now play Blu-Ray movies at 720p, thanks to 1.8 (it’s official)
Naturally, this 1.8 system update just keeps getting better and better. We told you about the 1.8 features that everyone knows about, we told you about the feature that nobody expected. We told you about some wacky workarounds that the 1.8 update introduces, allowing streaming media from your PC to your PSP.
We were getting [...]
HD-DVD: Consumers vs. The MPAA
OK, this is exploding all over the web. If you haven’t seen yet, the key used to decrypt HD-DVD movies has exploded all over the net because the MPAA doesn’t want it on the net, and people are upset at the ensuing censorship. Pressure is being put on websites to take down the [...]
