No BD for 360 or Next MS Console

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(my comments are in bold)

http://www.smarthouse.com.au/Gaming/Industry/U9C2F7B5

"After several days of internal consideration Microsoft executives have said that they will not be producing a Blu ray Xbox 360. Instead the Company is working on a brand new gaming and entertainment solution that will replace the current Xbox 360."
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Figured they were

"The device will go head to head with a new home console from Sony that is both a gaming console and content management system. It is not expected to be launched untill late in 2009 or early 2010."

2009!!! Are you kidding me Microsoft! You just came out with the 360 2 and a half years ago and you are talking about releasing a console as early as next year! Wow! There is no way in hell you are EVER going to recoup your losses trying to get into people's living room, XBOX lost you billions, 360 is still in red and by announcing a new console, people are going to be holding off on 360s buying and just waiting for your next piece of sh1t!

"In Australia senior Telstra executives have said that the future is not Blu ray but Blu ray quality content delivered over an IP network or via content kiosks. Telstra have also said that they want to deliver both games and entertainment content to both the new Sony and Microsoft devices with consumers given the option of either downloading the content to the device or picking up the content from storage kiosks located at Telstra mobile stores and at key public transport hubs."

Its been discussed 3 million times why this is retarded, I hope those new Xbox 720 owners or whatever its called have blazing internet service.

Once the word is out you gotta be in an area that has really fast internet service and you gotta bone up the extra cash for it, this will be FAILBOX #3 from MS.

"David Moffett the Group Managing Director, Telstra Consumer Marketing & Channel met with several global Companies including Microsoft at the 2008 CES event in Las Vegas and he is adamant that the future is IP delivery of content over Blu ray. He is also working to deliver content to kiosks in over 1700 locations so that consumers can pick up games and HD 1080p content. He also believes that Toshiba made the right decision in pulling out of the HD DVD content battle and that they will benefit from the transition to IP based delivery over time."

and the bitrates are going to be so poor that upscaled DVD is going to look better. MS just get out of the business, you don't know what you are doing.