Bad news for PAL regioners

[Pagnell]

Originally Posted by kevinorriss

Saving up £350 for a 360 as i have a longer wait for ps3 now, thinking of getting that test drive unlimited game, anyone played it? what you think?

Played it in the shop and it looks superb. I'm not an expert on racing games but the graphics are awsome and the game world is gigantic.

If you get the 360 you won't regret it.

[odhranus]

i played test drive unlimited on the 360 while in game and was very impressed by it, the graphics look ultra sweet and sharp, the cars look real and the game plays well.

[Pagnell]

Bad news for Sony, HD-DVD has got another layer which increases the capacity to 45GB.

There has long been a gap between the new disc formats ‘Blu-Ray’ and ‘HD-DVD’. Blu-Ray has often been quoted as having more storage space, but being slower in terms of access speeds. Today the people behind HD-DVD have announced a new triple layer disc format, which can hold mammoth amounts of data - up to 45GB.

This is good news for The Xbox 360, which supports (currently) HD-DVD over Blu-Ray which is the new format of choice for Sony and the PS3. Blu-Ray can hold up to 50GB of data on one disc, but now that HD-DVD has beefed up a bit this is not such a massive gap. The biggest advantage Blu-Ray has is its enormous size, so this means that advantage has been cut down by quite a margin. Which format will ultimately prove to be the most popular remains to be seen but Sony cannot be too happy with this latest development.

[odhranus]

are triple layer blue-ray drives possible in the future? mind you when will you need more than 50GB's of data on one disc is beyond me...

[Pagnell]

Triple layer Blu-Ray disks are possible - there is even talk of a quad-layer blu-ray disk that can hold 100gb. However, the PS3 will not be coming with one of these drives which renders this possibility pointless in the context of this discussion. The external HD-DVD player for the 360 will probably be a triple layer 45gb one as, design wise, these have yet to be finalised.

[Kernel Kev]

Am i right by saying the ps3 supports HD-DVD aswell?

I think i will get the one with the wireless controllers and hard drive, can you explain to me what is meant by the xbox 360 Xtreme edition, aparrently has 1 Gig Ram per processor, thats what i heard anyway.