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Great Link! In other news...: Microsoft's Xbox could consider Blu-ray support >> From guardian.co.uk:
Microsoft Corp's Xbox video gaming unit still fully backs Toshiba Corp's HD-DVD high-definition DVD format but could consider supporting Sony Corp's rival Blu-ray technology should consumers want it, an executive said on Tuesday.
"It should be consumer choice; and if that's the way they vote, that's something we'll have to consider," Albert Penello, group marketing manager for Xbox hardware said when asked whether Microsoft would support a Blu-ray DVD accessory in the event that HD-DVD failed.
Microsoft does not believe the surprise decision last week by Time Warner Inc unit Warner Bros, the top seller of home movies, to abandon HD-DVD format in favor of Blu-ray should affect sales of its Xbox 360 video game console, Penello said.
"I fundamentally don't think ... this has a significant impact on Xbox 360 versus (Sony's) PlayStation 3," Penello told Reuters in an interview at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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Microsoft won't do that for some time, if ever. So far, they don't need it to sell the XBox as a gaming console, and they aren't about to cut and bail after investing so much in HD-DVD. While HD-DVD may go away, it doesn't mean that they will get a Blu-Ray drive for the XBox 360 anytime soon, if ever.
On an interesting, factual note (since the XBox statement is still speculative), you can preorder a Blu-Ray internal drive for your PC for less than $200. Not too shabby. Hopefully this will drive the prices down again...
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It will take them as long as it took them to finally implement HDMI into their 360s.
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On an interesting, factual note (since the XBox statement is still speculative), you can preorder a Blu-Ray internal drive for your PC for less than $200. Not too shabby. Hopefully this will drive the prices down again...
There's also a dual hd-dvd/blu-ray drive on the market (for less than $500!). But the problem is that software support isn't very good. I was going to buy one but after looking into it I realized that it wasn't guaranteed to work well at all, so I ended up buying a ps3 and a Toshiba A2.
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I thought someone told me awhile back that major pornography film companies were backing HD-DVD.
You would think with that multi billion dollar industry that BluRay would have choked right there; if this were true.
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I thought someone told me awhile back that major pornography film companies were backing HD-DVD.
You would think with that multi billion dollar industry that BluRay would have choked right there; if this were true.
But then again, somethings *really* don't need to be in HD! 
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Chess, that was the case, but most of them switched to bluray instead.
Orginally bluray was not going to allow porn on their media, but caved in for financial gain.
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And Disney made the claim that they wouldn't put their movies out on the same format as porn, but that seems like a silly thing now...
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Orginally bluray was not going to allow porn on their media, but caved in for financial gain. Yep... That's always the case, follow the money wherever it takes you, that's their motto.
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Rumor Smashed: Microsoft Is NOT Considering Blu-ray Support >> From gizmodo.com:
Let us count the ways Albert Pennello, marketing manager for Xbox hardware, told us in a sitdown that the [Reuters] story was wrong, and when HD DVD really is buried in Microsoft's mind.
1. The "headline misconstrued the context of what I said."
2. Microsoft is "not thinking about it."
3. It is "fairly definitive" Microsoft is not doing it.
4. Microsoft has "no plans" to build anything Blu-ray.
5. Microsoft is "totally committed to HD DVD."
So just when is HD DVD dead in Microsoft's eyes? It's "over when Toshiba says they're not doing HD DVD anymore."
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