Which of the three will be first out of the gate next gen?

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Quartz said:

Avinash_Tyagi said:

Quartz said:
Besides Sony will want to keep the PS3 on the market until at least Blue Ray is the main media. Wether that will happen is becoming more apparent.

it won't, by the time HD becomes important enough to most people, Direct download will be the main media source, why spend hundreds of thousands on discs when you can just distribute over the net

Maybe, but you obviously don't live in the UK where most downloading is capped by ISP's...

I can't see BT (British Telecom) updating all the lines in the UK. Just 3 days ago I lost my net (1mb line) because there are too many people on broadband in my area and the service could not handle it.

I hear Australia in the same boat with the internet infastructure behind demand as is.  But not even the US services could handle the traffic if HD movie downloads went mass market.  Nor would ISP allow such volume.

If bandwith increases dramatically or compression, then maybe, otherwise HD movie mainstream downloading is still a long ways off.   Although a small % of the market may do this.