Tips on Buying a 360

[Schultz]

i seriously dought that MS will require HDMI for their videos, they already kinda screwed us early adopters whith the elite...i seriously dought they want to make all consoles before the elite obsolite. but ya, spend the extra 80 now and get the elite...the hard drive price wont go down any time in the next 2 years, so you would be over paying by 100 if you get the premium system now and upgrade later

Well the problem could be that its not up to them. Say if Microsoft wants to distrubute content from Fox or any other broadcasting company (Note they might already i don't know just using a company) and they start requiring that HDCP be used when playing back there video's via DRM then people only with HDMI can play that content. This is to make sure people doesn't just copy the video outta the xbox 360. So there its more up to content provider's then Microsoft and you know how they will fuck over customer's faster then anything to "protect" there content.