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Bluray within 3 months?

  • 18-02-2008 10:50am
    #1
    Riesen_Meal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,580 ✭✭✭✭


    http://xboxfamily.com/xf/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1409&Itemid=2

    We’re taking this with a grain of salt due to the source of the info, but… Smarthouse, an Australian technology news site, is reporting that Microsoft “insiders” from the US have told them there’s already a Blu ray drive complete and just waiting for final testing. They report that we could see the add-on unit very soon.

    The reason we think this report is hokey is simple. It’s the same site that reported they knew there was an internal HD DVD drive in an upcoming Xbox 360 that would have been announced late last year. This seems like someone using a likely guess to make naïve readers take it as fact. And since 90% of gamers who read news on the internet think it is all fact, we expect this rumor to spread like wild fire.

    While we do expect a Blu ray add-on at some point, let’s wait for a report from someone who didn’t guarantee an internal HD DVD drive months ago.


Comments

  • #2
    dazftw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,728 ✭✭✭dazftw


    Makes sense to buy one now that HD DVD is "dead" as it were!

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  • #3
    Varik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,552 ✭✭✭✭Varik


    no chance sony will play nice after all there other formats falling betamax and such


  • #4
    Vic Vinegar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,241 ✭✭✭Vic Vinegar


    Varik wrote: »
    no chance sony will play nice after all there other formats falling betamax and such

    Erm, Sony don't own Blu-Ray, do they...


  • #5
    BloodSugarSex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 353 ✭✭BloodSugarSex


    instead of a bluray add-on they should build the xbox ultimate with bluray built in


  • #6
    Fony Tenton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 108 ✭✭Fony Tenton


    mountain lips wrote: »
    Erm, Sony don't own Blu-Ray, do they...


    Yup


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  • #7
    Vic Vinegar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,241 ✭✭✭Vic Vinegar


    Fony Tenton wrote: »
    Yup

    No they don't!


  • #8
    Gran Hermano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,330 ✭✭✭Gran Hermano


    I'm in no rush to get a blu-ray player for the 360, either
    as an additional external drive or an internal drive in a new
    and revised 360 console. Watching blu-rays is the only use
    I get from PS3, if Microsoft offer me blu-ray on the 360 I'll
    really have no need for my PS3 and it'll be an even bigger
    dust magnet than it currently is. :D


  • #9
    eoin2nc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 691 ✭✭✭eoin2nc


    Would put money on this never happening. The main reason that there was a format war was HD-DVD using Microsofts HDi interface, and Blu-Ray using JAVA. Cant see M$ scraping their own fromat for one developed, mostly, by Sony that quickly. Prices of stand alone players will start to drop in price soon making a add-on pointless


  • #10
    Zonda999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,533 ✭✭✭Zonda999


    Fony Tenton wrote: »
    Yup

    Sony jointly own blu-ray.They have just always been associated with it bcos of the ps3.Many companies are involved in blu-ray.Some are(at the moment anyway) supporting both bluray and hd-dvd. LG and Samsung for example

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc_Association#Members_2


  • #11
    Varik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,552 ✭✭✭✭Varik


    The Blu-ray Disc Association was founded in May 2002 by nine leading electronic companies: Sony, Matsu****a, Pioneer, Philips, Thomson, LG Electronics, Hitachi, Sharp, and Samsung.

    while your right that they don't own all of it, they do own a lot of the movie comps and that let them have a bit of an edge on the hd format.no on will cross them if the say no


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