"Core" PS3 to be upgradeable, except for HDMI...

Indeed. I really don't think space is going to matter as far as movies go. Some may argue "Well they could fit entire seasons on one disc!" but the same could easily be done with HD-DVD as well. Besides, can't they make triple layer HD-DVDs now? Making it only 4GB or so shy of the size of Blu-Ray discs?

 

In most cases, I don't think they even fill up a standard DVD and when they do, it's rarely compressed. Storage won't be an issue for any movie or TV show. I can almost guarantee that if they put out a TV show box set in both Blu-ray and HD-DVD format, they will have the same number of episodes per disc as the other.

 

Blu-ray is 25gb per layer, HD-DVD is 15gb per layer. Blu-ray has been demonstrated at 200gb in labs (6 layers), whether or not that's commercially viable is another thing. HD-DVD go up to 45gb. Dual layer Blu-ray can contain ~8 hours of HD content, so presumably both formats could contain an entire series of anything. Once the better codecs in both standards start getting used properly (they use the same incidentally), I guess the number of hours of HD content would rise. Like Conjoshus pointed out, storage isn't going to be an issue for media.

More to the point, Blu-ray is expensive and HD-DVD is cheap, so my money's on HD-DVD. The DRM technology included with HD-DVD seems to be a bit more lax, too.

 

At $600+ yeah I don't see a lot of people doing that :icon_bigg

Overall 2 different models could help pushing for the most expensive, can you see kids fighting over "My PS3 is better than yours" lol :clap:

They should follow the path of the X360 at least it is really upgradeable, in my case I bought the core system and then months later bought the HDD when I needed it.

Sabre

 

At first I thought you guys were paranoid but now I am starting to feel it too!:dammit: