some companies cannot leave their optical drive's alone

[joeorc]

first only haveing Standard DVD 9 in your system..than adding a HD-DVD add on...
now this.....

Xbox 360 finally quiets down with brand new internal DVD drive

Posted Feb 6th 2007 9:03AM by Paul Miller
Filed under: Gaming, Home Entertainment

It's no secret that the Xbox 360's disc drive is hella noisy, by far outstripping any incidental fan noises that might be going on inside that white box. Luckily, help is on the way -- sort of. Microsoft has started building its 360s with a new DVD drive manufactured by BenQ-LiteOn-Philips, the BenQ VAD6038, which purportedly runs "super-quiet" in comparison to the previous two drives used by MS, and even speeds up and smooths out load times. Of course, this does nothing for the 10 million plus current owners of Xbox 360s suffering from the noisy insanity of the older drives, but it does mean that as Microsoft ramps up production with this new drive, your next 360 hopefully won't fall victim to the whir.

[Via Xbox-Scene; thanks smash_linux]
http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/06/x...ive/2#comments

this is only the start......