I'm getting a 360 soon and I'm not sure which one to go with. I like the fact that the elite comes with HDMI cables, but is there any discernible between that and component cables in terms of visual quality? Also, is the biggest hard drive necessary? What exactly do you download besides demos and movies? Also, can you download any movie or only certain movies? How much does it cost to download movies and can you download HD DVD quality movies or just regular DVD quality? To those of you that have the premium or the elite, are you happy with the one you chose or do you wish you had gone with the other?
i have a premium andit has everything an elite has exept the 120g hdmi cable and the color black, but i like the white ones better with the crome finsh
I'm getting a 360 soon and I'm not sure which one to go with. I like the fact that the elite comes with HDMI cables, but is there any discernible between that and component cables in terms of visual quality? Also, is the biggest hard drive necessary? What exactly do you download besides demos and movies? Also, can you download any movie or only certain movies? How much does it cost to download movies and can you download HD DVD quality movies or just regular DVD quality? To those of you that have the premium or the elite, are you happy with the one you chose or do you wish you had gone with the other?mysteryman2024
When I got my 360 a few months ago I decided to go with the elite. At that time the premiums did not support HDMI was a good reason to pick up the elite for me. The HDD really is the biggest thing. It's much less to get an Elite that to purchase a premium and pick a larger HDD later on. It's nice to download videos and demos off of XBL and not need to worry about clearing out old demos and videos I no longer watch or play, I'm lazy like that. You also will need to store game updates and games saves on your HDD so keep that in mind when decided if you need that HDD space.
Yeah, see I kind of prefer the color of the premiums too. But performance is more important. Somovies are 2-4 gigs, how big are demos and other downloads. Also, after looking through other posts, I've seen conflicting info on the new developments of the system. Some people say that the elites have been redesigned to not die and run quieter, is this ture? Also on that note, how loud are the 360's? I've heard that they're really loud and others say they aren't. Any thoughts? Thanks guys.
It depends on the game. If the games is more taxing on the 360 than it runs louder to better cool itself. To my knowledge Microsoft has done nothing so far to make the elites run any cooler than the premiums.
I also prefer the whiter over the black. It also sucks that Microsoft does not release any black accessories. My 360 looks a little silly being black but having a white wireless network adaptor.
Really, you can't get black accessories? What about black controllers? It's weird too that the premiums comes with 2 free games but the elites don't. So you say the system sometimes runs loudly and sometimes not; is it ever enough to really annoy you? Not that that would influence my decision to get one, I'm just curious.
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