It's funny in the UK where most technology arrives late we have pretty good and competitive Broadband network full of suppliers falling over themselves for our custom. You can get unlimted bandwidth at 30Mb for around £20 or less a month, I think Xbox one could work as a digital only machine in the UK.
Why does Xbox One have a Bluray player?
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As someone in the UK who had always lived in cities and towns I assumed we could survive without physical media. I was wrong - I recently moved to living only slightly off the beaten track you'd be surprised how many people even in the UK have absolutely pathetic broadband connections (also no 3G or equivalent phone coverage).
These aren't houses on the tops of mountains in Scotland or on a lighthouse off the coast - I'm in the centre of Buckinghamshire near London and am lucky to see 1Mbit download. My parents are in North Yorkshire only about 5 minute walk from the nearest town and they barely see 2Mbit. Rural broadband in the UK is nowhere close to being done (5-10 years left).
To put this in perspective - last game I downloaded from Steam was Bioshock infinite and I just left it syncing for 2 days...
Consider I'm 25 mins from London and a 4 minute drive from the nearest town on the fastest connection possible. Now extrapolate that out to the rest of the world.
These aren't houses on the tops of mountains in Scotland or on a lighthouse off the coast - I'm in the centre of Buckinghamshire near London and am lucky to see 1Mbit download. My parents are in North Yorkshire only about 5 minute walk from the nearest town and they barely see 2Mbit. Rural broadband in the UK is nowhere close to being done (5-10 years left).
To put this in perspective - last game I downloaded from Steam was Bioshock infinite and I just left it syncing for 2 days...
Consider I'm 25 mins from London and a 4 minute drive from the nearest town on the fastest connection possible. Now extrapolate that out to the rest of the world.
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One of things i hated this generation was the difference of sound quality between Sony exclusives and multiplatform/360 exclusives, now both having BR may fix the difference.
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i cant believe most of the other answers its not that difficult
now MS are promoting the xbone as a total home entertainment system, yes
if it cant play dvdz/blurays/cds then it hardly qualifies as a home enetertainment system
Retailerd would be just as happy with a small piece of cardboard or plastic with a key code on it. They could stock alot more in yhe same space and theft isnt an issue preactivation.
I thought about that. I also thought about revisiting the solid state market IE thumbdrives for those without good internet connections. these boxes already have usb2.0/3.0 interfaces on them so installing from thumbdrives you could authenticate and deliver to the box and only to the boxes you have access to.
We do this now in the government using ironkeys. Upon connection the device seeks out the ironkey service that ties into authentication servers without it you cannot unlock the device and move any data...
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How much are 30GB iron keys again? because blu-ray replication would probably cost ~$2/3 a disc at most.
It has hdmi-in, you can connect bluray to it
Blu-rays are quite cheap. See for example this place for pricing:
http://www.newcyberian.com/bluray-replication.html
in lot's of 100k 0.64$ per 25GB disc or 2.2$ for 50GB discs. Asian players can probably give much better deal for game selling much more then 100k copies.
http://www.newcyberian.com/bluray-replication.html
in lot's of 100k 0.64$ per 25GB disc or 2.2$ for 50GB discs. Asian players can probably give much better deal for game selling much more then 100k copies.
Only if you have a br player, Xbox One is the "all-in-one" thing. And my bluray player can't play 4K movies xD
Bluray spec doesn't go over 1080p so is it any wonder it doesn't?
How do you connect BRD player and STB to XB1?
My BluRay player can play mkv and mp4 videos, not 4k videos.
What would the cost be of hosting 25GB of data? Say at 10.000 downloads per month? What's the price 'per disc'
Netflix has claimed their costs at around 1cent per GB. That was a while ago.
What would the cost be of hosting 25GB of data? Say at 10.000 downloads per month? What's the price 'per disc'
Bandwidth is stupidly cheap. It's not a concern.
Your A/V receiver or maybe one of these?
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B46XUQU/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_J9gVrb18XJX4T
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You say that, but it's more close to BluRay discs than people realise I think. I even remember that Sony required devs to pay for the bandwidth costs for demos and such themselves.