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Now that we know what the next generation game consoles will look like, all the gossip is about the disks.

Finally, no one wants to keep a score card to remember which player they can pop a disc into; you want the disc to play in anything, whether it’s your gaming console, PC, or set-top recorder. Once again, the study results bear this out: 62 percent of respondents indicate they’d prefer a disc that be played in any of those three devices. That makes sense, considering that the popularity of DVD-ROM drives on computers was jumpstarted by the proliferation of DVD-Video, not DVD data, discs. For those of you keeping score at home, Sony has announced it will support Blu-ray Disc in the PlayStation 3; Microsoft, meanwhile, has not announced HD-DVD support for its Xbox 360, but rumors are still swirling that a future version of the Xbox might.

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