Serious Question.....
Our DVD player crapped the bed last week. We own a lot of DVDs and are hoping to start working our way through all of them. We are setting aside those we aren't really interested in owning. Movies that were gifted or bought in $5 bins at Wal*Mart. Anything we get for them goes to the next gen fund
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Netflix is regularly adding to their online library, and there have been some excellent selections available for awhile now. It is by no means a complete movie collection, but there is an impressive number of titles. It is, more or less, random as to whether or not the movie in question is available in HD (as far as I can tell). There is also rumor of Netflix considering a streaming-only subscription, which one would have to guess would be less than the $8.95/mo I pay now for one disc and an unlimited subscription.
Blu-Ray is nice, but you need a lot of supporting equipment to go along with it. That said, if you already have a high-definition set, it is something to consider. I always used to tell people that if they were a gamer, to buy a 360 and if they were more into movies to consider the PS3. I think the exclusives are better on 360 and the Netflix streaming has come a long way - frankly, it's more valuable to me than buying Blu-Ray movies anyway, but if you're a hard core movie buff, having that high-quality resolution may be important to you.
All of that said, the PS3 is, without question, the only Blu-Ray player worth buying right now (Unless you *need* Netflix streaming as well). It has the capability built in to support firmware updates, which virtually guarantees Sony will continue to support it with the latest and greatest. However, I will say this. The PS3, when off, consumes almost as much electricity as your refridgerator. That's right, your fridge. If you get one, use the rocker switch in the back.
To touch on daedaleandeus's point, the 360 is a media extender. However, Windows Media Center Extenders do not have access to DVD titles, via the disc tray or the DVD library. How do I know this? anitra and I ripped all our DVD's to our server at home and we can now stream them to any computer in the home. We have a multimedia PC set up in our living room for DVR, so that is where we access them. However, even though we watch the DVR'd videos through the 360 (since we're too lazy to switch over to the PC input, and the 360 controller is better than the PC remote we have) we can *not* access our dvd library through MCE. Supposedly some hackery people are working on it, but until then, that isn't a benefit.
I do have friends that have been able to use the PS3 to access PC based videos via their local network as well.
Finally, the 360 upscales DVD's pretty well. Whew. Any questions?
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Are you paying a XBox Live subscription fee and a Netflix fee on top of that?
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