To those saying this is running on 360, give it a rest. This video is from Ubidays, a couple of weeks back.

Everyone there, including GS staff saw this demo running on PS3.

I'll wait. I have both consoles.

Besides, I've been waiting just as much for the games I want on the 360 (damn Mass Effect, keeps getting delayed).

I don't understand people like you. If you think Sony is worst than Microsoft or Nintendo, you're just deluding yourself. They're all the same, companies trying to make money.

I don't want any of those 3 to leave the games business. More competition means better games and services. Competition also drives the development of new technologies.

And I definitely don't want any company to dominate. We have enough of that in the PC industry.

Whichever is the best version.

If they're equal, PS3. The sound of the 360's optical drive annoys me.

Sorry, you're probably right. I think I got it mixed up.

I've been watching too many HD video stream ratios and that got me confused since DVD is about 10 to 12 Mb/s and BD is 30 to 35 Mb/s.

Yo're wrong regarding the PS3 BD drive speed.

Read mechanism:1x@36Mb/s & 2x@72Mb/s

If you compare to a DVD drive like the XBox 360 it is faster:

12x@15.9Mb/s and 16x@21.2Mb/s

As for the comment stating the PS3 was a slow and bad BD player, you're also wrong: http://ultimateavmag.com/hddiscplayers/1206ps3blu/

On page 2:

"The PS3 also rocks with startup speed, disc load speed and disc access during playback. In other words, it's ergonomically very Sony. Inserting discs with the PS3 powered down, it took less than ten seconds, at most, to boot to the menu of either a DVD or a 50GB BD, either of which the PS3 does automatically. ...

This ergonomic performance is a far cry from the more expensive Samsung BD-P1000 standalone BD player, which still takes around 30 seconds to load a BD menu, or the Toshiba first-gen HD DVD players, which can take closer to a minute to load a disc. ..."

On page 3:

"The PS3 is just as fast and agile with the BD on-screen menus that come up while the movie runs, and chapter skips and scanning are as fast as any DVD player I've ever used- instantaneous, even with 50GB BDs. Again, this is far superior to the speed of the Samsung or Toshiba players, but also better again than Sony BDP-S1. And so far our PS3 hasn't frozen once during movie playback (which the Toshiba HD-XA1 has done far too many times), and thus far I've encountered more odd little glitches in the few days I've spent with the BDP-S1 than in the weeks I've spent with the PS3. ...

... the PS3 unequivocally flies, even with 1080p video and six channels of uncompressed PCM on tap. So far it is the only BD player I've seen that achieves the level of speed and stability we've enjoyed with DVD players for years, and takes it to the next-gen level."

As for Java applet support, well the PS3 has an upgradable firmware, so it's not difficult for them to add new features to it's BD player.

Look for information before stating your misinformed opinion as fact. It's not that hard.

PS: I own an XBox 360 Premium and a PS3 60GB.

Audio does have a lot of potential to grow, actually.

If they use uncompressed sound, which, provided you have a good sound system, sounds better, then it will take up much more space.

You say all that space isn't necessary. If developers want to improve sound quality, uncompressed, streaming sound is the way to go. So it's up to them to decide whether or not blu-ray is or isn't needed.

And on a side note, uncompressed sound does sound better. Just listen to NIN's Beside You In Time dolby truehd track on blu-ray or hd-dvd and compare it to the dolby digital one on dvd. But you do need a good system.