Cringely thinks the Apple TV will hurt Blu-ray and HD DVD sales

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siva @ Mar 23rd 2007 2:09PM

Your comparison is really messed up!!

While I am not that excited about AppleTV, the comparisons don't include network downloadable content. While the quality may not be there, downloadable content is not possible on HD-DVD players. May be you should limit your comparisons to XBox360 and such and AppleTV.

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Ben @ Mar 23rd 2007 2:16PM

Actually HD DVD does support downloadable content, which is why it has a network port.

But either way, the Apple TV is better for downloadable content, just not downloadable HD content.

It seems the Xbox360 rules this market right now, since there are actually downloadable HD movies for it and the bit rate is considerably higher, with real surround sound to boot.

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