X-Box 360 Magazine says HD DVD losing

[davidPS3]

The newest "Official X-Box Magazine" (October Issue) in the Press Release section states:

"Slashed - In price recently by a whopping $20.00 was the Xbox 360 HD- DVD add-on drive. Though it's reportly sold well since its release last holiday, the movie studios have continued to back BLU-Ray in 2007, continually draining enthusiasm from the Toshiba backed HD-DVD camp. Buy hey, look at it this way, now it'll cost you just $180.00 to jump on the bandwagon of the losing high-deg optical format!"

This comes from the X-Box community. There is another article following this one here that is titled "Dumped". More good reading for us Blu Fans!

[darkpoet25]

Yeah I read the same thing and had a thread about it as well. I thought this was downright hilarious!

[lch]

but they are coming out with hd-dvd addon2 right ?

[ESUNintel]

That's pretty cool. At least they admit to it.

[Aaron]

Originally Posted by darkpoet25

Yeah I read the same thing and had a thread about it as well. I thought this was downright hilarious!

Haha, they even admit they're loosing! Classic..


OT: Is that Lil' Jon in your avatar?

[Rike255]

Originally Posted by lch

but they are coming out with hd-dvd addon2 right ?

That was a rumor with no basis, Microsoft denied it already.

[devonthedude]

Originally Posted by davidPS3

The newest "Official X-Box Magazine" (October Issue) in the Press Release section states:

"Slashed - In price recently by a whopping $20.00 was the Xbox 360 HD- DVD add-on drive. Though it's reportly sold well since its release last holiday, the movie studios have continued to back BLU-Ray in 2007, continually draining enthusiasm from the Toshiba backed HD-DVD camp. Buy hey, look at it this way, now it'll cost you just $180.00 to jump on the bandwagon of the losing high-deg optical format!"

Oh, that can go with another quote from Microsoft on why they omitted the hd-dvd in the 360 elite. Quote Microsoft, "It's an unproven format" the only reason why the elite 360 did not get hd-dvd.

[ESUNintel]

Originally Posted by lch

but they are coming out with hd-dvd addon2 right ?

It be somewhat dumb of them if they created an other add-on. At least they were smart enough not to include the HD-DVD drive in their new Elite or Halo 360 (or dumb, depends how you see it). Didn't some Microsoft exec (a while ago) announce that Microsoft has sided with HD-DVD for reasons; however, they would have no problem adapting to which ever format came out ahead?

[ESUNintel]

Originally Posted by devonthedude

Oh, that can go with another quote from Microsoft on why they omitted the hd-dvd in the 360 elite. Quote Microsoft, "It's an unproven format" the only reason why the elite 360 did not get hd-dvd.

Yeah, hopefully in a few months we'll see external Blu drives for the 360. That would rock.

[davidPS3]

Originally Posted by devonthedude

Oh, that can go with another quote from Microsoft on why they omitted the hd-dvd in the 360 elite. Quote Microsoft, "It's an unproven format" the only reason why the elite 360 did not get hd-dvd.

Good point, they don't even believe that their format is going to make it. This way they can look back and refer to these annoucements and statements and say that they were "neutral".

[Dave]

The day when x-Box will have Blu-ray addon is near

[TruBlu2]

Originally Posted by devonthedude

Oh, that can go with another quote from Microsoft on why they omitted the hd-dvd in the 360 elite. Quote Microsoft, "It's an unproven format" the only reason why the elite 360 did not get hd-dvd.

The 360 Elite didn't have a hddvd drive built in???????

Question: Does any of the 360 games use hddvd discs??????

If No to both questions: Then is the add-on hddvd drive for 360 just to watch movies????

If so, besides Halo3, the 360 is useless and cannot even compare to the PS3.
+ its high repair rate of what 33%.
Damn

LOL hddud, you guys really suck.

All I can say is......BLU-RAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good article by the way.

[SS316SRV]

I am sure it has been said before on this forum, but the HDDVD addon for the 360 doesn't even play ALL the HD DVDs. Hot Fuzz, Planet Earth are two of the examples wont play in the addon. That is how shotty for a format HD DVD is. Their players wont even play every movie.

[TruBlu2]

Originally Posted by Dave

The day when x-Box will have Blu-ray addon is near

Besides 360's high repair rate, 360 deserves a Blu-ray drive. I would like to see that for the GAMERS.

[Sonny]

Originally Posted by TruBlu2

The 360 Elite didn't have a hddvd drive built in???????

Question: Does any of the 360 games use hddvd discs??????

If No to both questions: Then is the add-on hddvd drive for 360 just to watch movies????

If so, besides Halo3, the 360 is useless and cannot even compare to the PS3.
+ its high repair rate of what 33%.
Damn

LOL hddud, you guys really suck.

All I can say is......BLU-RAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good article by the way.

none of the xbox consoles have built in hd-drives.
no they use dvd-9/yes just for hd-dvd movies.

[Sonny]

PS3 games 60$ on BLU-RAY Disc. xbox 360 games 60$ on dvd-9 WHAT!!! A 60$ $$$$$$$$$ DVD.........BULL SHIT!

[TruBlu2]

Originally Posted by Sonny

PS3 games 60$ on BLU-RAY Disc. xbox 360 games 60$ on dvd-9 WHAT!!! A 60$ $$$$$$$$$ DVD.........BULL SHIT!

True!! That is funny. Go Blu

[DavePS3]

Hey, you gotta give the guys at the magazine credit for at least admitting the truth instead of giving false hopes to their fan base. Good for them, they have my respect for that.

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lol............

[MasterXeus]

Originally Posted by TruBlu2

If so, besides Halo3, the 360 is useless and cannot even compare to the PS3.

Halo 3 is not the only good title on Xbox 360.