As I explained in my Netflix review, one of the reasons why I became a Netflix convert was the streaming content they had available to XBox 360 owners. For $8.99 a month, you had access to their entire library of online streaming content at your fingertips. From my point of view, I saw that as the real reason to subscribe to Netflix and getting one-DVD out at a time was just a nice side benefit.

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Sony announced that the PlayStation 3 will come in two flavors: expensive and more expensive on November 17th this year. A PS3 with a 20gb hard drive will cost $499 and one with a 60gb hard drive (and some more features) will run $599. The only real significant differences, other than the hard drive, are that the $499 version will not have 802.11 b/g wireless capability or a high definition HDMI output.

So money conscious gamers out there, are you going to line up for a PS3 or is this rig just too expensive?