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...priced for the future too. In the U.S., Sony is charging $500 for the 20-gigabyte edition and $600 for the 60-GB box. (By comparison, the Xbox 360 costs $400 for a basic version and $500 for one with a hard drive; the Nintendo Wii console will debut two days after PS3 for about half the price.) Throw in a few PS3 games, at $60 a pop, and you're out $900-a sum that may scare off consumers. And PS3 already frightens stock analysts. "We do not believe the machine provides incentives for buyers...
...will offer high-def episodes of CSI, NCIS and Numbers for purchase. That will mark the first instance of major network or studio content retailed online in HD. (CBS will sell other shows in standard definition on Xbox Live Marketplace, including Survivor...
...Hourlong high-definition TV episodes will be around 2GB, still large given the fact that the Xbox 360's hard drive is only 20GB. For that reason, Xbox Live Marketplace will keep track of purchases in a virtual "locker." You can delete content on your own drive and still have full viewing rights to it. In fact, you can log onto any Xbox 360 and download your own content, though as soon as you log off again, the content goes off limits...
...movies and TV shows will only be playable on Xbox 360 consoles. The service will not be available to owners of the first Xbox console, nor will the video downloads be accessible to PCs, even if your Xbox 360 is networked to your PC to share other video content. Microsoft also confirmed that the purchases will not be compatible with its upcoming Zune media player, which will have its own Internet-based retail service for music downloads...
...Many companies including Microsoft competitors Apple, Amazon.com and Google are getting into the video distribution business. Microsoft's ace is that the Xbox 360 is already connected to the TV, a hurdle others try to overcome by marketing multimedia set-top boxes or creating unwieldy hardware partnerships. Microsoft expects the number of Xbox 360 consoles to number 10 million by Jan. 1, the lion's share of which will likely be connected to the Xbox Live network. It's tough to declare a winner with so many services in such early forms, but it's a safe bet that Microsoft...