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Sony and Microsoft in talks for Xbox 360 Blu-ray drive
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article published on 7 March, 2008
According to the Financial Times, Sony is currently in talks with Microsoft about a having the company offer an internal Blu-ray drive model of the Xbox 360 console.
Microsoft had backed the rival HD DVD until the format's demise last month.
The word of the negotiations come from Stan Glasgow, the president of Sony America. Sony has not confirmed the negotiations as of yet however.
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varnull
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9. March 2008 @ 11:16 |
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there will not be any posibility of playing games from an external "official" drive... never.. They are too paranoid of giving anybody the kind of access to the data stream and security.
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9. March 2008 @ 11:39 |
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Originally posted by ville30:
Meh I wouldn't buy the external drive since my xbox doesn't have HDMI. VGA is alright for gaming and watching DVDs. I'll wait for profile 2.0 bluray players to be released.
All 360s can have hdmi now, mad catz makes an adapter to that plugs in the back of the 360 and gives you hdmi.
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9. March 2008 @ 12:05 |
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All 360s can have hdmi now, mad catz makes an adapter to that plugs in the back of the 360 and gives you hdmi.
the only port on the back of ANY 360 (beside usb and power) is a female HDMI, whether or not your cables are 1080i grade is another story...
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9. March 2008 @ 12:43 |
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Originally posted by ZippyDSM:
scorpNZ
If thats about 150 US dollars I will agree :P
That price sounds good to me i'll contact you & wire some money to ya as soon as the price gets there, it'll save me a few more dollars if i buy American hehehe ,it's the advantage of having mates living overseas,since you can't direct import from the US :p
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10. March 2008 @ 08:58 |
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about console add-ons:
in 4 years or so, microsoft will probably be moving once again into another new console. (xbox720?)
the question is whether or not they would build an entirely new box or try and add hardware to the old.
one look at console gaming history would suggest the whole new box would be the way to go, with sega cd, etc.
then you think about sony's "10-year-plan," and whether or not ps3 can pull it off.
if you say it will, you take a second look (back at sega) into console history, and remember the dreamcast.
one year before ps2, it was the best thing ever. then it was, economically, blown out of the water.
sega never made another console.
the xbox720 might be there two years before ps4, but that might end up being its only two good years.
what i'm hoping is that there's gonna be a big box that you plug the whole wii into.
it will have an enormous hard drive, as well as several other hardware upgrades.
nintendo fantasy system ftw
nintendo:sony::ford:chevy
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10. March 2008 @ 13:59 |
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umm... they dont have to support Blue-Ray at all, use DVD-9 and have 4 Disc sets, its Possible.
On another note why when people look at BR, they go ahh thats Hi-Def media. Its in this marketing flaw that people are sadly miss taken.
4 7.95 Gig discs can easily Match that of a single layer BR disc.
its not the disc thats hi-def its the Content on the format witch is Hi-Def.
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10. March 2008 @ 14:14 |
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Originally posted by DXR88:
umm... they dont have to support Blue-Ray at all, use DVD-9 and have 4 Disc sets, its Possible.
On another note why when people look at BR, they go ahh thats Hi-Def media. Its in this marketing flaw that people are sadly miss taken.
4 7.95 Gig discs can easily Match that of a single layer BR disc.
its not the disc thats hi-def its the Content on the format witch is Hi-Def.
they can't do that because of the way they have done the HDDs the HDD cashing and live MP support it can not be done without MS's content and they wont have anything to do with multi disc MP gamings.
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11. March 2008 @ 12:31 |
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Honestly Zippy, Its my game if i want it to be on half a billon floppy's i have that right.
And the whole MP issue is nonsense on there part. Simply because when i load into a new map on an online compatitioin, it could say please insert 3rd disc.
MS hurts my feeling its like the expect me to be so fat i cant get up otta my lazy boy and put in the 3rd disc.
the Multi disc format did come with Lost Odessy, i honestly want too here people say its because its an rpg. thats why its Multi-Disc format
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