Xbox 360 to have HD-DVD drives

Xbox 360 to have HD-DVD drives

Written by Ravdeep Hora
Tuesday, 28 June 2005


Yesterday, when Microsoft and Toshiba announced their enhanced
partnership for Toshiba’s upcoming products, Bill Gates said Microsoft
doesn’t necessarily favor one HD standard over the other, and the
software maker would prefer to stay out of the competition. Today,
however, Gates stated that Xbox 360, the company’s upcoming gaming
console, would actually have HD-DVD drives.

Since the HD-DVD drives probably won’t be ready by the time Xbox 360
is available in retail channels, Microsoft said it would ship the
console initially with regular DVD drives and then revise the console
with HD-DVD drives once they are ready.

According to industry reports and analyst speculations, Microsoft may
have an edge against Sony’s PlayStation 3 with more sales, since the
company would have its Xbox 360 ready for shipment way before Sony, or
even Nintendo.

http://www.cooltechzone.com/index.ph...k=view&id=1473






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Allan

On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 12:44:36 -0400, Allan <>
spewed forth these words of wisdom:

> Xbox 360 to have HD-DVD drives
>
>Written by Ravdeep Hora
>Tuesday, 28 June 2005
>
>
>Yesterday, when Microsoft and Toshiba announced their enhanced
>partnership for Toshiba’s upcoming products, Bill Gates said Microsoft
>doesn’t necessarily favor one HD standard over the other, and the
>software maker would prefer to stay out of the competition. Today,
>however, Gates stated that Xbox 360, the company’s upcoming gaming
>console, would actually have HD-DVD drives.
>
>Since the HD-DVD drives probably won’t be ready by the time Xbox 360
>is available in retail channels, Microsoft said it would ship the
>console initially with regular DVD drives and then revise the console
>with HD-DVD drives once they are ready.
>
>According to industry reports and analyst speculations, Microsoft may
>have an edge against Sony’s PlayStation 3 with more sales, since the
>company would have its Xbox 360 ready for shipment way before Sony, or
>even Nintendo.
>
>http://www.cooltechzone.com/index.ph...k=view&id=1473
>
>
>
>
>

So that means there's absolutely no reason to buy an Xbox 360 at launch.

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