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Up until yesterday, the living room set-top box was simply a "hobby"for Apple; its fumbled Apple TV product did little to unseat the HDvideo rental download champ, the largely uncontested Xbox Live VideoMarketplace. With a fresh splash of software for new boxes and a freeupgrade for current users, Apple TV Take 2 is giving it another shot.
Of course, for an audience of gamers (that's us!), Apple's product has a particularly severehandicap but, on a strictly video entertainment scale, it manages tobest the Xbox Live Video Marketplace in just about every category. Nowwe realize this is, in many ways, an apples to oranges comparison(sorry), but Microsoft isn't just competing for gamer dollars anymoreand competition is growing (in fact, the at-home-rental set-top boxindustry will see another entrant later this year with Netflix).
Toget to the bottom of which service provides the most bang for youre-buck, we ran some data through our handy-dandy (and patent pending!)Tabulator and it spit out the table found after the break. Be sure tolet us know in the comments if there's anything we're it's missing.