J Allard chat transcript

Hey Strider. Gigs. haha

Yes, gigs, and anti-piracy encryption isn't going to be using 3 of 'em.
3megs, maybe.

Hey, I did say it had 3 megs of security features. But enough about that, let's talk about the 360's 512k of unified RAM. WILL IT BE ENOUGH??

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Originally Posted by kedawa

Yes, gigs, and anti-piracy encryption isn't going to be using 3 of 'em.
3megs, maybe.

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3 megs, 50 megs, 10 gigs. It won't matter. Once it's beat, it beat. If the system proves successfull enough for pirates in Hong Kong to make a buck off of bootlegs, it will be cracked.

18 MILLION GIGS OF SECURITY!

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Originally Posted by LordPerrin

If we're going to be seeing movies with 8 layers, they'd damn well better fix the layer change pause issue. (Though now that I think of it... even with HD and no compression, what could possibly use 200 gigs? All three LotR EE's on one disc?)

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Layer change pause issue? What is this, 1997? I've never owned a DVD player with this issue, and I've been watching DVDs since '99. They definitely overcame that issue, unless you have a shit DVD player. My CyberHome 500 was $50 and it's all-region, PAL converting, and no layer change pause.

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Originally Posted by Bacon McShig

That'd rock. Entire seasons of TV shows on one disc would be pretty hot as well.

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That's one use I read they were thinking about. If you make it Standard Definition instead of High Definition, you could fit a TON more time onto one disc. So you'd be buying Simpsons seasons 1-3 on one disc (or whatever it would work out to be, you get the point). Of course, 8 layers will probably be not the norm. I mean, dual layer didn't come out to be common until quite a few years after DVD was out. It's just that they have the option to do so.

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Originally Posted by TobalRox

Layer change pause issue? What is this, 1997? I've never owned a DVD player with this issue, and I've been watching DVDs since '99.

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So you don't own a PS2 or Xbox?

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Originally Posted by LordPerrin

So you don't own a PS2 or Xbox?

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No I'm just not fucking dumb enough to use them as a DVD player, therefore I don't count them. I guess that makes my original statement technically incorrect, but since I have 2 standalone DVD players in the house, along with 2 PCs equipped with DVD-ROM, I don't need to bother including my PS2. and I certainly wouldn't include my xbox because I wasn't gonna shell out $40 for the "ability" to use a shitty DVD player.