Microsoft agnostic on format war, no HD-DVD Xbox 360 coming |
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At the onset of the next-generation format war, Microsoft seemed to back Toshiba's HD-DVD strongly. As Blu-ray picks up the momentum, however, Microsoft looks to keep itself at a safe distance from the crossfire.This was apparent as one by one, Microsoft top executives issue statements that their focus is shifting to downloadable high-definition content over hard media. The latest Microsoft boss to emphasize that position is Jeff Bell, Microsoft's corporate vice president of global marketing for interactive entertainment.
In an interview during the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Bell said that his company is taking a more agnostic view of the format square-off. "WeÂ’ll let the market decide how theyÂ’re most interested in consuming entertainment," he commented.
More importantly, Bell reaffirmed that there's no plan of building-in an HD-DVD drive into future Xbox 360 SKUs, telling media personnel that they were "absolutely not" planning on doing that.
There were several predictions that a new Xbox 360 SKU was to be unveiled at the CES, but such an event never came to pass. Microsoft instead focused on Windows Vista and other consumer products.
Via PC World
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Downloadable high definition movies! You could probably fit a whopping 4-5 movies on the 20 gb hard drive which can only be upgraded to a higher capacity hard drive built by Microsoft, which are also extremely over priced!
overpriced if you're poor.
only a fanboy wouldn't notice that Microsoft hard drives are OVER PRICED ,for the price of a 120 gigs you could easily find a 250 gigs or more on any website that sale hard drives, hell I just got a250 gig hard drive for my PS3 for u$138 and a blue tooth headset for 40. wile if I was to buy those for the 360 would be u$179 and u$60. guest I'll get me a game with the rest of the money I would had used to buy just the hard drive for my 360 :0
yeah they are VERY overpriced. You can get a 500GB HDD for $100. I'm just saying who cares? If you have the money, it should be no issue. If you're some poor *****, then it is an issue.
Everything purchased on the marketplace doesn't need to be stored to be owned. You can re-download it from the service at anytime from any 360 you are logged onto. But MS needs to allow streaming and all storage problems will then be dust in the future. Obviously bandwidth speed plays a part in a no storage world where everything is transmitted over the cloud, but most ISPs in most countries are in the processes of upgrading the speed of their services and will continue to do so. We may even see better codecs in the future to help reduce file size even further. 1080p videos under 5GBs? Maybe. Before everyone jumps on me and starts crapping on about digital downloads will never replace disc media, listen. Both can exist, and they are 2 totally different markets. Some people like discs, and some people like to point, click and purchase. Other people just say f'you and download it for free.
Whether you have the money or not does not change the fact that they are priced at a value higher than they are worth. But yeah, go ahead and keep up that attitude. I'm sure once you're old enough to get a real job paying slightly above minimum wage and you have to pay all your own expenses you'll be able to spend your money on every over priced piece of crap you want to make yourself feel better. On the other hand you could just live with your parents for the rest of your life and beg them to spend their money on anything you want. That works too, right?
Well, movies on Live are rentals anyway, and are actually quite reasonable when you consider how much it is to actually rent a movie, but I think they really need a monthly service, such as pay X amount per month to download as many movies as you'd like, and a slightly higher price for HD movies, kind of like a Netflix but on Xbox Live Marketplace.
Well paying $199 for Rock Band is over priced but people bought it anyway. It's a cruel world.
Sorry to disappoint you Dustball, but I'm 23, I make $120,000/y doing web-related activities (programing, web design, that kinda *****), and haven't lived with my parents since I was 19. There goes that idea.
theyre are already obsolete. mb nxt 5 - 10 yrs when broadband speeds up whilst ever increasing size of hdd go bigger
Nobody ever said the hard drives were too expensive for them, only that they are over-priced, which is true. For (I'm assuming) a college graduate who (supposedly) makes 120k per year, you have poor reading comprehension skills. You're also extremely immature. Anyway, to Dustball, you can only rent movies from the Marketplace, not buy, so why exactly would you have 4-5 on your drive at any given moment?
Rock Band was $170 and definately worth it.
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