Microsoft switching to bluray!?

[marzetta7]

Originally Posted by KenB

What's with the article being written a month from now? We need a lot more confirmation before we start breathing hard...

Yes, I equate this story to the mythical wet dream of cheap HD DVD players at Wal-mart, but entertaining to say the least.

Anyhow, in terms of the date, I believe in other countries, their format is day/month/year, which would make this article in April I believe.

[Jack Torrance]

Originally Posted by marzetta7

Yes, I equate this story to the mythical wet dream of cheap HD DVD players at Wal-mart, but entertaining to say the least.

Anyhow, in terms of the date, I believe in other countries, their format is day/month/year, which would make this article in April I believe.

Yeah, I thought I read this weeks ago. And didn't M$ hurriedly get a correction out there for this story?

[MatrixS2000]

I know this story is not confirmed yet...but I love this quote:

http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messa...80/352701.html

Article by Rachel Konrad 06/04/07 The Associated Press

There is Bad news on the horizon for X-Box 360's HD-DVD Drive owners as Peter Moore told Rachel Konrad on a recent trip to Japan while entering negotiations with Pioneer. Microsoft's Xbox corporate VP of worldwide marketing and publishing Peter Moore told Japanese site ITmedia that the imminent release of the Blu-ray Xbox 360 peripheral could appear for the system before Christmas. Moore admitted that Microsoft's opinion on HD-DVD as the Next Generation format winner is bleak with the worst-case scenario being a repeat of the Beta vs.VHS war of the '80s. Moore also added Microsoft is giving the consumers the most cutting edge technology out there and In this moment in time Blu-Ray is that.

As per usual Peter Moore couldn't help but have a go at Sony and the PS3 "However, he suggested that whatever the outcome of the HD-DVD/Blu-ray war, the Xbox 360 can adopt the dominant format since its uses an external drive. He also suggested that it's a weak point for PlayStation 3, saying Sony's system is stuck with only 1 format. Microsoft announced the Blu-Ray peripheral will connect to the Xbox 360 using one of the system's USB ports. Moore once again confirmed that the Blu Ray add-on for the Xbox 360 is only for watching movies, and there are currently no plans to use it for games, nor are there plans to release an Xbox 360 with an internal Blu Ray drive.

uuuummmm hello, the PS3 could also make use of one of it's USB ports for an external HD DVD drive. DUH! Not that we will have to worry about this....

[RUR]

Originally Posted by Jack Torrance

Yeah, I thought I read this weeks ago. And didn't M$ hurriedly get a correction out there for this story?

Yeppers. Here 'tis:

http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?op...=2053&Itemid=2

[add911]

well, ig this isn't true than HD DVD will fade away. blu ray has more support,better quality and i have heard alot of things on the web about how rubbish HD DVD is and big companies dropping out.

[nhaase]

Originally Posted by add911

well, ig this isn't true than HD DVD will fade away. blu ray has more support,better quality and i have heard alot of things on the web about how rubbish HD DVD is and big companies dropping out.

What companies have you heard that are dropping support of HD-DVD?

[dakota81]

Always take Microsoft rumors with a grain of salt.

To me, sounds like official rumors targeted to halt sales of PS3s. "Hey everyone, don't buy a PS3 for Blu-ray movies! We might be releasing an add-on drive of our own down the road!"

It's the same line Microsoft has been using for decades to stop people from buying other company's products - promises of integrating the technologies, then never actually delivering.


But on the other hand, 360 hd-dvd drives have been on clearance many places, soon to be removed from some stores. So this might actually have a hint of truth to it.

[Ascended_Saiyan]

If the BDA let's MS provide a Blu-ray player add-on for the 360, they better make sure that MS properly implements the software decoding and decryption of BD. I'm sure Hollywood doesn't want another device able to bypass the security on their HD movies.

[Coltboy]

It has been my experiance that MS will not give up on HDDVD so easily. I have seen them lose their shirts on products, even when they had a chance to back out they didn't. While they mostly make great products, i figgure they will go bankrupt before they support Blu-ray. LOL i wonder how Windows vista or XP will act when it discovers a blu-ray disk drive on a PC?!

[The Don]

I find it hard to believe that MS would cave this quickly...

[dialog_gvf]

Originally Posted by KenB

Yeppers. Here 'tis:

http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?op...=2053&Itemid=2

That's from 16 January 2006, which was a previous rejection of this notion.

Is there a new rejection of the latest story?

Is the story real? We see the post in a message on a site, but is it real? Can anyone find the article separately?

Gary

[GCW2216]

Originally Posted by Jack Torrance

Yeah, I thought I read this weeks ago. And didn't M$ hurriedly get a correction out there for this story?

Love your signature!
GO HOWARD!