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It's Over! Blu-Ray Officially Wins!
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: shardian on February 18, 2008, 09:22:22 am ---Maybe someone should just send Microsoft a memo that expensive Add-on accessories have always been and always will be failures in the console market.
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fixt
Things like the GBA player usually do well for what they are.
shardian:
I'm still pissed that M$ required the purchase of a remote to play DVD's on the xbox. WTF was up with that?
pointdablame:
--- Quote from: shmokes on February 18, 2008, 12:21:10 am ---One caveat, though. The PS3 does not have an IR port. The multimedia remote for it uses BlueTooth just like the controllers. Thus, don't expect your Harmony, or any other universal remote, to control it. Kind of a big deal to anyone with a one-remote setup like me. Seems like a pretty dumb thing for Sony to overlook, considering how important it is for Sony to position PS3 as a media center, and the negligible cost of adding an IR port. For crying out loud, it'd be one thing if this was Nintendo we're talking about, but Sony? They ought to know a thing or two about audio/video components.
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The Harmony 890 works with bluetooth. You're mostly right, but you can still have a "one remote setup" with a PS3, you just need the right remote. The Wii also uses bluetooth and can work with the 890, though I've yet to figure out why you'd want your Wii controlled by another remote... not like it can do anything worthwhile without the Wiimote.
shmokes:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on February 18, 2008, 12:53:21 pm ---
--- Quote from: shardian on February 18, 2008, 10:17:59 am ---I'm still pissed that M$ required the purchase of a remote to play DVD's on the xbox. WTF was up with that?
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That was kind of ridiculous, especially when the dongle-free DVD player worked great.
It honestly kind of scares me to see Sony winning a format war. They always have neat stuff but I've never trusted what they'd do if they actually 'won'.
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It's because in order to sell a product that can play DVD movies you have to pay a royalty to the DVD consortium, which would have raised the price of Microsoft's already expensive console. By disabling the feature, the only Xboxes that needed to pay the royalty were the ones that had the feature enabled (by the dongle). They decided that since the VAST VAST VAST majority of households already owned standalone DVD players at the time, most users would rather save the $15 off the price of the console. The way they did it meant that only the people who actually wanted to use it as a DVD player would have to pay that royalty. The DVD Dongle-Free program is illegal.
ChadTower:
They did a lot of people a major favor, too, given how crappy the DVD drive is on most Xboxes. If people had been using them as movie players too their Xboxes would have been dead that much sooner.
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