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Xbox 360 might have HD-DVD (again!)
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| http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-...-360-3902.shtml
The Microsoft-Toshiba HD-DVD Alliance Changes Xbox 360
The new console will include HD-DVD
It didn't take long for the first effects of the partnership between
Microsoft and Toshiba announced yesterday to appear. According to the
statements made by Bill Gates in Japan, Xbox 360, the new gaming console
will include HD-DVD drives. Considering that such a decision would postpone
the launching date, Microsoft will equip the initial models with classic DVD
drives, and only after the new HD-DVD are ready, the Xbox will incorporate
them.
Xbox 360 going into the HD-DVD side is an important advantage for Toshiba
and in the same time a response to Sony's announcement that the new Play
Station 3 will incorporate the Blu-Ray standard.
Up until now, the Play Station sales exceed Xbox's, but the fact that
Microsoft will be launched before PlayStation 3 makes some analysts say this
situation will change.
Gates also said that the Microsoft-Toshiba alliance is not a unilateral
partnership and that many of the equipments manufactured by the Japanese
company, such as the Tablet PCs will be based on Longhorn, Microsoft's
future operating system.
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| Zackman 2005-07-30, 8:33 pm |
| Highlander wrote:
quote:
> Considering that such a decision
> would postpone the launching date, Microsoft will equip the initial
> models with classic DVD drives, and only after the new HD-DVD are
> ready, the Xbox will incorporate them.
Dumb idea, unless they're only equipping them with HD-DVD for movie
playback. If consumers have to figure out whether a particular game will
work on their game machine (is this game DVD or HD-DVD?) they won't be
happy. And even then it's not ideal, tho it's true 80% to 90% of a console's
lifetime sales happen after the first year. Still, who'd want to be an early
adopter if they're only getting regular DVD?
But launching an HD-DVD equipped X360 at the same time or before the
massively expensive Blu-ray equipped PS3 might not be a bad thing. Sony's
taking a huge gamble that Blu-ray won't end up as the next Beta, and if two
competing consoles come out with two competing standards, that hurts their
chances further of making Blu-ray the winner, which IMO is a good thing. Tho
ultimately it's consumers who lose. It's too bad Sony and Toshiba couldn't
come to some kind of agreement.
-Z-
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| Doug Jacobs 2005-08-02, 8:34 pm |
| In alt.games.video.xbox Highlander wrote:
quote:
> It didn't take long for the first effects of the partnership between
> Microsoft and Toshiba announced yesterday to appear. According to the
> statements made by Bill Gates in Japan, Xbox 360, the new gaming console
> will include HD-DVD drives. Considering that such a decision would postpone
> the launching date, Microsoft will equip the initial models with classic DVD
> drives, and only after the new HD-DVD are ready, the Xbox will incorporate
> them.
Ok then. Thanks, Microsoft for telling me to buy a PS3 while you figure
out this HD-DVD thing...
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