Why PlayStation will win against Xbox's superior media capabilities

[MorganX]

Sony's secret weapon, PlayStation Vue. It has Investigation Discovery Network (not common for streaming services), it's priced right, now has HBO Now (Game of Thrones alone makes this worth it), and most importantly, Microsoft has absolutely no answer.

 

I went 4k and Xbox S and love it. My first UHD Blu-rays are on the way, and I may add a PS4 Pro because of Vue. SlingTV is absolutely unreliably horrible. Once I go two consoles, Xbox One S and PS4 Pro. Scorpio is not an option.

 

For all MS has done right, this huge gaping hole in its armor, is going to slowly expose itself. I will take a reliable streaming service, with ID Network over a UHD player any day of the week.

[adrynalyne]

33 minutes ago, MorganX said:

Sony's secret weapon, PlayStation Vue. It has Investigation Discovery Network (not common for streaming services), it's priced right, now has HBO Now (Game of Thrones alone makes this worth it), and most importantly, Microsoft has absolutely no answer.

 

I went 4k and Xbox S and love it. My first UHD Blu-rays are on the way, and I may add a PS4 Pro because of Vue. SlingTV is absolutely unreliably horrible. Once I go two consoles, Xbox One S and PS4 Pro. Scorpio is not an option.

 

For all MS has done right, this huge gaping hole in its armor, is going to slowly expose itself. I will take a reliable streaming service, with ID Network over a UHD player any day of the week.

Until you have an Internet outage and are sad  I'll just get both and cover all bases.

 

[MorganX]

35 minutes ago, adrynalyne said:

Until you have an Internet outage and are sad  I'll just get both and cover all bases.

 

That's the big risk with the cloud/internet. Bad weather (for DirecTV) and power outages happen more often I think. But lack of high speed bandwidth is going to become an issue as streaming continues to grow. When you have it, you take for granted everyone does which is not the case at all.

[hdca18]

As a PS4 owner I am quite disappointed in Sony for not making the new PS4 able to read 4k video discs. This in my opinion is a bad move. I am actually considering getting rid of my PS4 console and buying the Xbox One S. 

[Jason S. Global Moderator]

There are still some valid reasons to want physical media. i think too much emphasis is placed on streaming today. you have to remember that streaming media is only available as long as the service owns it. sure, netflix and amazon are huge companies but they still have contracts with media outlets. Netflix adds and removes media all the time. and what if a company goes bust? all your purchases are now gone. blu-ray and UHD blu-ray still have way higher bitrates than streaming options. as already mentioned, internet connection issues and power outages are to considerations too.

 

that said, i still stream 90% of my media through amazon and netflix. in the end, owning a physical copy of your favorite tv shows and media is still better, imo.

[BinaryData]

1 minute ago, Jason S. said:

There are still some valid reasons to want physical media. i think too much emphasis is placed on streaming today. you have to remember that streaming media is only available as long as the service owns it. sure, netflix and amazon are huge companies but they still have contracts with media outlets. Netflix adds and removes media all the time. and what if a company goes bust? all your purchases are now gone. blu-ray and UHD blu-ray still have way higher bitrates than streaming options. as already mentioned, internet connection issues and power outages are to considerations too.

 

that said, i still stream 90% of my media through amazon and netflix. in the end, owning a physical copy of your favorite tv shows and media is still better, imo.

Well, then there are people like me, who store a local copy of everything his family and friends watch. With the swapping of my 3TB for 8TB disks, I'll be sitting on a RAW storage capacity of 72TB of space. I'll be switching to zfs or something similar for redundancy.

 

I don't stream my media, I rarely watch Netflix, Hulu or any of these other streaming services. Most the shows on there, I've already seen, or I have no interest in watching. With that said, I'd rather have the XBOX One S because I've always felt Sony was behind on everything, lack of games, lack of patches, network congestion, among many other things. Not to mention, their controllers feel like cheap plastic was used to make them, and they are too small for my hands. XBOX Controllers fit perfectly in my hands, and the joysticks aren't humongous either. Plus, being able to send videos from my desktop to my brothers XBOX One is awesome. I feel the PS4 just isn't what it could be.

[MorganX]

11 minutes ago, BinaryData said:

Well, then there are people like me, who store a local copy of everything his family and friends watch. With the swapping of my 3TB for 8TB disks, I'll be sitting on a RAW storage capacity of 72TB of space. I'll be switching to zfs or something similar for redundancy.

 

I don't stream my media, I rarely watch Netflix, Hulu or any of these other streaming services. Most the shows on there, I've already seen, or I have no interest in watching. With that said, I'd rather have the XBOX One S because I've always felt Sony was behind on everything, lack of games, lack of patches, network congestion, among many other things. Not to mention, their controllers feel like cheap plastic was used to make them, and they are too small for my hands. XBOX Controllers fit perfectly in my hands, and the joysticks aren't humongous either. Plus, being able to send videos from my desktop to my brothers XBOX One is awesome. I feel the PS4 just isn't what it could be.

I'm with you on Xbox Live and the Controller.

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

1 hour ago, MorganX said:

Sony's secret weapon, PlayStation Vue. It has Investigation Discovery Network (not common for streaming services), it's priced right, now has HBO Now (Game of Thrones alone makes this worth it), and most importantly, Microsoft has absolutely no answer.

 

I went 4k and Xbox S and love it. My first UHD Blu-rays are on the way, and I may add a PS4 Pro because of Vue. SlingTV is absolutely unreliably horrible. Once I go two consoles, Xbox One S and PS4 Pro. Scorpio is not an option.

 

For all MS has done right, this huge gaping hole in its armor, is going to slowly expose itself. I will take a reliable streaming service, with ID Network over a UHD player any day of the week.

Didn't we just have a disagreement 2 weeks ago about UHD vs streaming, and which is more important in today's market?

[MorganX]

32 minutes ago, Andrew said:

Didn't we just have a disagreement 2 weeks ago about UHD vs streaming, and which is more important in today's market?

We agreed to disagree. Lol. Keep in mind, I'll be keeping both, not trading in. This is more related to Cable TV though. MS is relying on Sling, PlayStation has it's own Vue which is superior. We're talking CableTV (or being free from it) vs. Having a UHD player. Not 4k streaming only, vs 4k streaming + UHD player.

 

Xbox 1S still wins hands down as a 4k media device IMO. But with PlayStation Vue, the game changes and tilts in Sony's favor IMO. If you have Internet at home, VUE may make it worth it to buy a PS4 and a separate UHD Player if you want the ultimate 4k experience. Cable TV is not cheap.

 

Edit: I don't think Sony realizes what it has in Vue. Not yet anyway.

[spaceelf]

I still remember the backlash over MS introducing TV stuff heh.  Vue could be interesting, but at the same time I have no patience for live TV after owning a DVR for over five years.  I watch stuff when I feel like watching it.

[MorganX]

4 minutes ago, LostCat said:

I still remember the backlash over MS introducing TV stuff heh.  Vue could be interesting, but at the same time I have no patience for live TV after owning a DVR for over five years.  I watch stuff when I feel like watching it.

Vue has a 28-day DVR.

[BinaryData]

16 minutes ago, LostCat said:

I still remember the backlash over MS introducing TV stuff heh.  Vue could be interesting, but at the same time I have no patience for live TV after owning a DVR for over five years.  I watch stuff when I feel like watching it.

I've been downloading my TVShows for years, so in essence, I use a DVR too I hate commercials. If I could pay for commercial free TV, I would. That excludes a DVR, my mom isn't tech savvy which is why I use PLEX.

 

Whoever adds Network Storage ability to their device will become my new fan. I'm tired of having a vast space, and not being able to use it to store xbox1 games and data. My network speed is 1Gbit, which is faster than USB3.* iirc.

[spaceelf]

USB3 is 5gb, so no. 

 

Also I looked and didn't see the DVR bit.  Heh.  You'd think that would be more obvious in their own marketing.

 

I know X1 delayed their DVR support but I'm still hoping to see it soon enough.  My finances don't really support PC and all consoles so I'm not sure when I could jump on Sony if I wanted to.