NXE

[dirrtyj]

As one that has a PS3 i have been very happy with its performance.  I try to review the games i have and or have played.  Over all i think the PS3 is a media system not just a game system.  As to the games on the system.  You do have to remember that the 360 was out almost a full year before the PS3.  So we are now starting to see higher quality games.  Dead Space being a great example.  All the games are mostly multi-platform but thats just business.  Now that games cost so much to develop that to re-coup the cost.  Anyone that hasn't seen a blu-ray movie on a good HD-TV you are missing out...!!!!

[ZeBezy]

As one that has a PS3 i have been very happy with its performance.  I try to review the games i have and or have played.  Over all i think the PS3 is a media system not just a game system.  As to the games on the system.  You do have to remember that the 360 was out almost a full year before the PS3.  So we are now starting to see higher quality games.  Dead Space being a great example.  All the games are mostly multi-platform but thats just business.  Now that games cost so much to develop that to re-coup the cost.  Anyone that hasn't seen a blu-ray movie on a good HD-TV you are missing out...!!!!

the way I see it is XBOX 360 > PS3

[jake]

Agreed.

[Latro]

the NXE makes the Xbox 360 much more of a media system then it was before.  While the Netflix streaming library is still.... well.. kind of crappy, I still find plenty of shows that spark my interest, and even more that interest my son. 

Plus, the ability to stream video from computers makes it great too.

I haven't really used the PS3 but I'm very happy with the Xbox 360...

[Labyrinthine]

IMHO the 360 as a media player is one giant joke

It can't handle half the formats or containers the PS3 can and it has a horrible time playing hard disk media. Before I was streaming from my media server I would ALWAYS without fail 45min-1hr into the presentation get a "This media cannot be read" error which would never reverse itself.

Especially in comparison to a dedicated HTPC, the media capabilities are paltry.

Sorry, I tried my hardest to make the 360 usable as a media player - I even went and hung out with the fuppes guys for 3 weeks trying to get the video transcoding working - but it just doesn't cut the mustard.

[Latro]

IMHO the 360 as a media player is one giant joke

It can't handle half the formats or containers the PS3 can and it has a horrible time playing hard disk media. Before I was streaming from my media server I would ALWAYS without fail 45min-1hr into the presentation get a "This media cannot be read" error which would never reverse itself.

Especially in comparison to a dedicated HTPC, the media capabilities are paltry.

Sorry, I tried my hardest to make the 360 usable as a media player - I even went and hung out with the fuppes guys for 3 weeks trying to get the video transcoding working - but it just doesn't cut the mustard.

I've never had any trouble streaming video the Xbox 360... its worked great... but of course I'm not using the "Media Center" connection... So maybe that's the difference. 

Connect360 for the Mac has been great.

[Labyrinthine]

I'm not using media center connection either. I'm just going through the normal network connection running fuppes which works great for streaming. Twonkyserver was better and easier, it just doesn't have transcoding.

I would use Tversity, but I don't want to run windows on my file server.

For most, I imagine the 360 would work fine as a media server. I've just run into incompatibilities at every time. Matroska, x264, FLAC, APE, etc. Managing my huge library was also a nightmare on the thing.

I gave up and am in the (very) slow process of piecing together an HTPC which I'll probably run XBMC on with the aeon theme. It doesn't handle media to live up to my snobbish standards, but the frontend is just sexy. I'm not usually one for sexy, but this is sexy.