PS3 vs. 360 - Which one is best for me?

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liamtoh669 said:

Hey guys,

I'm a Canadian who lives in Taipei, Taiwan.  Taiwanese TV is generally poor (i.e. it sucks hairy ass balls) so I like to watch American/British TV shows that I download via bit torrent as DivX AVI files.

Currently I've been burning them to DVDRW and putting them into a cheap DVD player I got that has DivX, but I realize that with these fancy HD consoles, I could probably do the same thing wirelessly over my local LAN.

But the question is, which one is best for me, 360 or PS3?  I've tried to weigh the pros and cons from my unique perspective, and so far here is what I have:

PS3 vs. 360

Main Purpose:  To play video content that I have downloaded from bit torrent sites in .AVI format.  I want to either stream it or copy it from my OS X computer to the local hard drive of the console over the wireless LAN.

Secondary Purpose:  To play video games... the ones that interest me the most are Street Fighter II HD, Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD, Pac-Man CE, Civilization Revolution, and Legends of WrestleMania

Some useful programs to you might be:

PS3 Media Server : http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/downloads/list

Media Tomb : http://mediatomb.cc/

Both work with OSX and both are free.  I've only seen PS3 Media Server in action but it was pretty great.

Games you can pick for yourself, but if you really want to play video files with it then you should look into the software that will let you do it (before you settle on buying something anyway).