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> video gamer wrote:
> DVD-9.
> looking at
> leaning
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> I've been saying all along that microsoft would have been stupid to
> bypass an HD disc format of some sort. They would have limited themself
> to the now FULL dvd9 format(ie. GTA:San Andreas)
> So with that in mind, how can you get better graphics if your disc is
> already full? The only option is better compression, but compression
> takes time to process... Larger disc is the way to go, and they can
> pull it off so late in the game.. they are launching this thing this
> year arent they?? not even 6 months from now!? They better have that
> format nailed down.
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> http://www.variety.com/index.asp?la...egoryID=18&cs=1
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> The past few months, all indications were that Xbox 360 (the next
> generation Xbox, Xbox2 to most people) would be getting standard

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> dual layered DVD. but several reports now say that Microsoft is

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> both blue-laser formats, HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. it seems that they're

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> toward HD-DVD, as they were in the past, before
> things seemed to go in the direction of having just standard DVD.

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> (so Xbox2 might be back to where it started, having HD-DVD)
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> http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?t=344487
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> " Microsoft is expected to announce this week that HD DVD will be a
> non-exclusive component of the upcoming Xbox 360."
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> " Details on the next-generation Xbox were scant from Edward Bland,

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> marketing general manager of Microsoft's home and entertainment

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> Xbox, explaining that its major introduction will be held at the E3

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> Los Angeles the week of May 16. But he did note that "no decision has

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> made as yet for a blue-laser format" for Xbox. Bland noted that

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> Blu-ray or HD DVD would be acceptable""
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> uh, and what about the supposed on-again, off-again merging of the

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> next-gen formats ? It seems to change everyday!
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> who knows, maybe Xbox 360 (and Playstation3) will end up with both

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> and Blu-Ray, one way or another.
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> or maybe we'll see an all out format war, with a Playstation3-backed

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> The experts are saying that HD-DVD and blue-ray won't be available to the
> public til early next year. Due to talk about allowing drives to read
> both formats. So it is highly unlikely that the xbox will have it.
> Seeing how it is being released in Nov of this year.

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> The experts are saying that HD-DVD and blue-ray won't be available to the
> public til early next year. Due to talk about allowing drives to read both
> formats. So it is highly unlikely that the xbox will have it. Seeing how
> it is being released in Nov of this year.
> "Brenden D. Chase" <brenden.chase@gmail.com> wrote in message
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