Do you guys think the pc is better than xbox 360?

PC is like a Ferrari, XBOX is like a Hummer... really popular for a few years but eventually gets reduced to a gas guzzler (ring of death)

 

Of course the PC is way better than any console out there. However I have both PC and Xbox 360. For instance NHL 09 on PC sucks monkey balls compared to the 360 version. Also I am glad I have a 360 since I can play Gears of War 2 on it meanwhile I can´t on my PC´s.

Another game I am looking forward to is the new game from Rockstar games that apparently won´t come to PC first but the 360 and PS3. So meanwhile I play most games on my PC I play a few on the 360.

 

If one could have a pc that could play any game for as long as the life cycle of an xbox 360 (or any console) then I would definitely say PC is better.

 

Reminder that provided you nerf your play experience down to where the console does, any well-built PC should be able to...

 

Exactly right, just done your PC game settings down to the console settings and you should be good to go. If you want to keep playing games at settings consoles can only dream to touch, then you'll have to upgrade.

 

LOL!

Everyone who has posted in this thread should give the OP some +rep. This is epic.

 

I have an hdtv. And the blu-ray dvd's are a joke right now as the people who are publishing them are not even using them properly. They are wasting space and that in itself is completely pointless. And i have yet to see any real major difference on my 720p tv. It still looks good and it's not like i'm going to be going crazy with the magnifying glass. Also blu-ray will never be extremely popular enough to make everyone get a blu-ray player and a 1080p tv for many years to come. So the whole reasoning behind getting a blu-ray player is completely pointless unless you have some sorta uber setup.

And my ears are fine enough. I have watched a movie via blu-ray on my 720p lcd tv. And i also watched the smae movie as a basic dvd. I noticed very little difference in the sound quality.

The Image MAYBE better if you look at it and have some ungodly huge tv something that's atleast 40"+ but at the smaller sized tvs the difference isn't that noticable. Granted that i have watched a dvd on my laptop then had a rip of a blu-ray dvd via a friend who had a blu-ray enabled pc. And the difference in quality when you just look at them is very nice. But to pay an extra 150 to read them is not worth it. Considering the dvds are already going to be twice as expensive as a normal dvd. It's not worth it.

 

What are you talking about bluray disc are better because of their quality and ability to be resistant to scratches.You sound like a fool in your post.

 

And yours sounds much more intelligent?

 

Srry was in a rush..i fixed it.

 

They aren't Blu-ray DVD's. They are Blu-ray disks. So you are saying you are smarter than movie companies and others who use these disks? Do you even have any idea what you're talking about?
Average movie is 23GB~39GB [while there are some what are 9GB and some what are 40GB+] and one reason why they are large at size because of the amout of codecs they use.

720p is not even FullHD. That is why Blu-ray is so good, you can watch movies at FullHD resolution @ 60fps (interlaced). No HD-rip or upscaled DVD will ever be close to this.

Actually you are wrong here. Again. Right now you can get one of the best Blu-ray players for 299$ and you can normal Blu-ray player with 99$ USD. Blu-ray movies are also only 2~5$ USD more expensive than regular DVD's.

Blu-ray is pointless if you don't have a HDTV.

So 40" inch HDTV is huge for you? Do you live in Russia or something? -_-
40" are cheap nowdays. The 60" LED HDTV's have started to get popular already.
With any HDTV the difference between a DVD and Blu-ray is like day and night.

There's your mistake. Blu-ray rip. Unless it was a fully lossless rip (it has to be the same size as it's on the disk) it's simply trash. And seriously ... Blu-ray enabled PC? I actually lol'd here.

DVD's and twice as expensive as they are now? Are you trolling here? Regular DVD+R's cost 0.50$ cents for years now.

 

Time to resurrect it...

Part of the magic of this thread is how far afield it went from the original request...

I think in 17 pages, there was maybe one page of 'facts'...

And then so many, many posts about the PS3 and Wii...*scratching head*...and then checked it again today, and we're now discussing BluRay vs BluRay DVD (???) vs HD-DVD vs DVD vs LaserDisc vs VideoCD vs VHS vs BetaMax...

And then to top it off, there's been a lot of help in this thread in identifying 'idiots'...I would have never guessed without some other posters pointing it out...when I have time (around 2018), I'll have to sort through here and pull out some of the real gems...

Here's hoping we can break 20 pages...

Meanwhile, don't forget...one of the advantages of the 360 is that you can buy that HD-DVD attachment from eBay for cheap...and HD-DVDs are extremely cheap, too...and if you wait 30 years and keep your collection pristine, there will be some collector's value on them like there is on certain BetaMax movies...very, very difficult to find laptops with HD-DVD drives...Toshiba offered it in their Qosmio line-up for a while...

By the way, I'm on my way to Best Buy to pick up Guitar Hero 5 and Madden 10 (buy one regularly priced game, get the other half off) not for my beloved laptop, but for my *ta da* 360...hope my Jasper survives the month so I can play them...thankfully, the 360 made it through the hottest part of summer...

 

And I'm sorry...I realize the OP doesn't care about the BluRay debate, but I guess my ears and discernment are horrid...

I have a Panasonic PT-AE700U projector (native 1280x720) going to a 92" screen...I run an HDMI cable to it and component cables (that's what I used prior to upgrading my receiver to handle HDMI and buying a BluRay player)...

When I bought my HDMI receiver (Yamaha RX-V863), I also bought a BluRay player (Panasonic)...the receiver feeds JBL speakers in a 7.1 configuration (and not the Boss tiny, or tinny, satellites with a big woofer to make up for it...two floor speakers with two 8" drivers and a tweeter each...a center channel with two 6" drivers and a tweeter and four book shelf speakers, each with a 6" driver and tweeter and a 10" sub, more than powerful enough for the room)...not a super hi-end setup, but it is quite capable...

I have lots of options for DVD scaling...I can let the projector scale...I can let the receiver scale...or I can let the BluRay player scale...for BluRay discs, the player transports them via HDMI to the receiver which transports them to the projector via HDMI and then the projector DOWNscales the image to 720p (native resolution) for display...there are slight differences in the DVD image scaling depending on which device does it...I tested them all, and in the end, I allow the projector to do all the scaling...it seems to do the best job...

In the end, on my setup, since I don't have a native 1080p display (that's next Christmas, PT-AE3000), DVDs look as good as BluRay on the 92" screen (DVDs get upscaled...BluRays get downscaled)...so either my perception is horrid or high quality mastered DVDs with good scaling aren't that bad at 92"...

As far as the sound front, you will find very, very few BluRay discs that actually use 7.1 sound (look at www.blu-ray.com and browse the movies for available audio formats)...Hellboy 2 is one of the few...it is true that BluRay discs use 'lossless' formats, DolbyTrueHD or DTS-HD, even on the 5.1 tracks...but my poor, horrible ears can't really tell the difference between lossy DVD audio tracks and lossless BluRay tracks (and believe me, I tried after spending the money to buy a BluRay player)...but I still find mp3s ripped to 128k pleasant while the rest of the world rapidly moved to 320k...my friend says he can tell a difference...I can't...

I guess the 'facts' for this are the specs of my setup...the opinion comes from my lack of visual and aural acuity...

I believe (and this is opinion) that as bandwidth becomes more accessible to the masses and improvements are made in internet traffic protocol, that movies on optical media are going to go away...we will download our HD movies and BluRay players will become irrelevant like VHS players are right now...currently, I find the NetFlix service for the 360 cumbersome and what they're billing as HD movies do not have lossless audio tracks (and there are periodic visual quality issues that even my poor, tired eyes can detect)...but things will improve...

 

It was X200 series of the Satellite model (the SLi version) not the Qosmio and that was 2 years ago.

Here's some interesting stats:

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/08/17/game-informer-xbox-360-at-54-2-percent-failure-rate/
http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/microsoft-responds-to-xbox-360-54-2-percent-failure-rate-report/
http://gizmodo.com/5344302/microsoft-responds-to-542-xbox-360-failure-rate-claim-doesnt-dispute-it

Even the possibility that the failure rate is still at over 50% is atrocious. Anyway now that Microsoft has dropped the price of these crimes against the gaming community I will probably have to fix another to get a PS3. Not too bad though, the most fun I ever had with an XBox was fixing it. ROFL!!!! XD

 

Yes!!!! Now we get to argue Toshiba laptop models on this thread in our quest for 20 pages...you are correct that some of the Satellite models offered HD DVD drives...you are also correct that it was 2 (to 3) years ago...

You are incorrect when you say 'not the Qosmio'...several of the Qosmio F- and G- AV series had HD DVD drives...they were billed as multimedia machines and HD DVD was Toshiba's multimedia flagship at the time...slightly damaging to your credibility for any further insights...but let's proceed...

And here's a slightly different story where the data gathering seems a little more extensive and less emotional since it's based on actual warranty claims to SquareTrade (vs a survey which tends to bring out the upset, angry customers in bigger numbers than the ones that are quietly satisfied...but that's a personal opinion...)

http://www.squaretrade.com/pages/xbox360-ps3-wii-reliability-08-2009/

If you don't want to download the pdf, here's the conclusion without the charts or numbers:

Of the three major 7th generation game consoles, we can safely say that the Wii is the most reliable system on the market, with just one-fourth the malfunctions of the PS3 and Xbox 360. Even when adjusted for the lower rate of usage, the Wii leads the pack by a comfortable margin.

Our study also found the Xbox 360 to have the highest rate of failure by far, largely due to the Red Ring of Death. While our data indicates that RROD continued to persist as a major problem through 2008, it showed signs of finally abating with the introduction of the latest “Jasper” chipset in late 2008. SquareTrade will continue to monitor the progress and publish an update on the incidence of RROD in 2010.