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Microsoft Says No BD Drive for Xbox 360

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Home Media Magazine | Microsoft Says No BD Drive for Xbox 360


 
No No No Absolutely untrue Now introducing the Elite!
 
. This is absolutely true until 60 seconds from now, thats about how far you can believe a company press release. Everyone should have learned that from Paramount and WB.
 
hmmmmm....IF it is true, I won't buy a PS3 on Monday.
 
I find it hard to think they wouldnt consider the profit possibility, but who knows. This has been denied so many times its not even funny.
 
yes... no... yes... no... I'll believe it when Microsoft makes the announcement. It's funny. "My friend who used to work for the HD-DVD division and now works for XBox, Zune." Did Amir ever say what he was doing after he left last fall? I know he said he was messing with BD stuff and comparing audio.

S~
 
Amir, err, "retired." Perhaps a bit earlier than he planned.
 
While I've always hated this rumor, would be nice to see something like this come out and deflate some of this hype around Sony's Wii-like strategy with the new 80gb MGS bundle. Reports of Gamestops only getting/expecting to receive like 4 of them. They haven't been sending new 80gbs to retailers for a couple months and have never had problems meeting demand... and now IMO they're shorting supply to generate a 'marketing by availability' hype machine.

Guess we'll find out tomorrow, been way too much smoke for there not to be some fire I guess.

Can anyone clarify the shortcomings with the BD drive on the PS3? Are all BD drives locked at a fixed reading speed like that (or maybe I am misunderstanding it?), or could a 'nicer drive' solve this, and the PS3 just uses earlier tech?
 
Nothing wrong with the drive in the PS3. Just the way it is.
 
Yes, he did. Nothing.
That was only to bring the audio "specialist" RBFilms down to earth:
the 96kHz soundtrack in BD's Nature's Jorney has nothing above the 48kHz track in HD DVD.

Diogen.

The video sure as hell wasn't better. Rich whined and blamed VC-1. He claimed AVC would show Blu-Ray was better. However, he refused to put out a HD DVD disc to show otherwise. Hell, he could release the last HD DVD and make collectors happy. However, he claimed his "mistreatment" on AVS is why he wouldn't ever do HD DVD. Anyhoo, this isn't the war zone.

MS (and/or Toshiba) took a bath on the HD DVD add-on drives. MS wisely kept their lead in the US game console market by keeping costs down.

A Blu-Ray add-on would be about $200 with current prices. MS could get the drive from LG or Panasonic if the taste of doing business with Sony (actually Pioneer) is too distasteful.
 
They say no again.


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Rich whined and blamed VC-1.
Did he ever do anything but?
Windows laptops are only worth to be driven over with SUVs...
Nobody (but him) understands what high end audio is about...
His girlfriend hears the difference between 16bit and 20bit on Bose car speakers...
Jitter is introduced while transfering audio between hard drives...
And my favorite: Real audio pros never use dither...
he claimed his "mistreatment" on AVS is why he wouldn't ever do HD DVD.
This is why he got such a warm welcome at brcom...
A Blu-Ray add-on would be about $200 with current prices.
I really can't understand the nature of those rumors.
Sony f*cked up with BD drive inclusion in the PS3. Kutaragi was fired for that.

The only one way to feel better is to see another console maker is as stupid as you are? Is that it?

Diogen.
 
Yeah, by including that drive in the PS3 they won faster than expected. Yep, big error!
 
I think the PS3's huge volume is what won the war but HD DVD was with a scheduled WB press conference away from being able to out last BD in a long race. New formats usually don't deal with numbers in the millions and the PS3 gave BD that advantage. Even with the low attach rate the volume was just to much.