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So...not everybody stores only music on discs. I could store 35 gig TS files...
 
My point, one file can be bigger than the supposed limit, ie. one 20 gig TS file, that's around 4 gigs past your single layer HD-DVD limit. My FLAC and Wavpack files eat space like crazy too, imagine having to separate my lossless Zappa collection, that would be insane!
 
Seeing as I need more disc space, I can burn a rewritable, finish encoding one file, and bring that file back on to my drive for more encoding.
 
I'm quite neutral to this battle, but your argument isn't true in most situations. I can probably split a big file into an archive, but why waste the time? Encoding takes days, archiving might take just about the same amount of time.

Why don't you just buy a couple 750 gig hard dives, spend just as much as buying a decent blu-ray burner, and have 1500 gigs of space that moves MUCH faster than any blu-ray or hddvd player would ever be able to do?

I have made this same point twice on this very thread. HDD space is cheaper than even the burnable discs for Blu-ray at this point.  Add in a $700 burner, and you have a pretty expensive archiving solution.

 
Sorry, 12 pages is a lot to slog through...

Well, my point isn't against you actually.  I know you came into this thread late.  My point is: these people who think that BD-R is a great format for backing up data are a little bit weird IMO.  

I hear ya.

I just demoed a PS3 at the store.  I played NFS Carbon and the graphics are good, although worse than NFS Most Wanted on my PC; an older game!!!!.  
 
Gamespot also did a side by side comparison of PS3 vs XBox 360 and took screenshots and the XBox 360 clearly won with better graphics.  Not bad for a 1 year old system.  I noticed the same graphics issues while trying out the PS3.  The rearview mirror has no objects in it while the 360 shows everything like the street signs and lights, etc...
 
With current games it looks like the XBox 360 is superior to the PS3.  Its also smaller and nicer looking than the PS3.  The PS3 looks like a giant ship out of Star Wars.  If this is any indication to possible sales figures, maybe the 360 will win out, and this might help HD-DVD get an edge on the competition.

You have to be kidding!  Well, if you want to know what the fuss is about, look up Sony's Rootkit issue (where they were trying to pretty much spy on people without them knowing), then start looking on the RIAA site:
 
http://www.riaa.com/default.asp
 
It pains me to link to those bastards.  They sue single low-income mothers because their daughters download music, and they are evil.  They even sue disabled people (dead serious).  Start researching their lawsuits.
 
Then check this out:
http://www.eff.org/
http://www.boycott-riaa.com/mission
 
 
Anyway, that's why people are so freaked out by DRM.  Because we don't want corporations to ruin the internet by spying on everybody all the time.  The RIAA was probably formed after they watched V for Vendetta and mis-interpreted the message it was trying to convey.  
 
Reading stuff like this makes me scared! seriously,how long before we are forced to have microchips implanted in our bodies so the government and big corporations  know exactly where we are and  what we are buying.
 
I feel like going to Washington and gunning down a few congressmen, maybe then the rest of them might start fighting for our rights like they should be doing.
 
ok maybe not gun people down but Sony should definitely be shut down and ordered to pay billions for the people's rights they violated.
 
US government violated people right every day and the sad part about this. All of us don't stick together. More and more Christians tv and radio station are talking about the Federal Reserve-(The Creature From Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin),environment and New Orleans. Corporate of America and Foreign control US government. Nowadays it all about $$$$$$$ and screwing the people.

I like Sony. They're one of the few companies out there that really push the boat out for the progression of technology, unlike others that just want the safest profit possible, regardless of how good it is.  
I respect them for taking the risk with blu-ray, because lets face it, its far superior to hd-dvd that can barely hold a HD film, despite its title.  
With the PS3 as well, they pack it with more bang than the 360, adding in blu-ray and supporting FULL HD gaming unlike the liars of M$, and offer it all at a price (which though may seem expensive against other consoles) is bloody good for what you get in it (blu-ray players alone cost about as much as a PS3).
 
And yes, they've had a bad year with the diode problems and the exploding batteries and the DS beating it in sales (which i'm actually thankful for, because Nintendo also please me with their revolutionary schemes, and i don't want to see the end of them) but half of that wasn't their fault.
 
So, all in all, sorry for 2006 sony, and good luck with blu-ray, i'm routing for ya
 
P.S don't waste your time with "fanboy" comments, i couldn't care less

Smart money is to wait, anyone who had lived through the VHS/Beta wars knows that untill things shake out, you have a 50% chance of losing your investment    These Asshat media moguls need to get overthemselves and put out the best tech with fewer levels of BS.  Consumers should not be guinnie pigs....unless they allow themselves to be.

Wait.  The Xbox 360 has a scaler chip, the PS3 doesn't.  If you have a 1080i only HDTV (my parents have two Mitsubishis from 2000 and 2002 that are 1080i only) and you buy the Xbox 360 and PS3, the Xbox 360 will scale your games to match the TVs resolution, while the PS3 will downgrade 720p games to 480p, since 480p is the highest resolution the PS3 game and the TV support.
 
How is that full HD gaming?   The Xbox has better VGA options and better scaling, the PS3 only delivers "full HD" if you have a TV that supports 1080p, 1080i, 720p and buy a HDMI cable that does not come with either version of the PS3.

you kidding? Betamax players are worth some cash!... more then when they were new.

Dude, I have an old crap CRT. It is 480i. No point at all. I am looking at some nice 1080p DLPs to replace it...

Some DLPs are subject to Burn-in. Remember that.  
Plasmas are too.
LCD is the way to go dude.

Dude, this is such a stupid post.  So much stupidity... *sigh*.  :?

PS3 had another Firmware upgrade that added full scaling I believe.  I remember reading an article that it now conforms its video output to 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p depending on your tv.  Why that wasn't in place out of the box, I have no idea.

Because people payed $600 for a beta product.
 
Hurray, for you beta testers!... Though I remember being a beta tester was free.... oh well guess not.

DLP? Burn in? Really? I always thougt it was a thing of the old plasmas...
 
Thing is, I only have 3000- tops 4000 dollars to spend. That gets me what, a 30 something 1080p LCD, or for 3000 a 71 inch samsung DLP(also 1080p)(check amazon right now).  Is DLP noticably worse than plasma/lcd?

Rear projection CRT = Burn in *duh
Plasma (new and old) = Burn in (your looking for models that advertise shifting pixels) This doesnt stop burn in completly, but lessons the chance and effect.
 
LCD = no burn in
LCD DLP = depends... look up the model