Blu-ray Coming To the Xbox 360 - Again
Get the salt ready because the idea of Blu-ray on the Xbox 360 console is not dead. It might be battered, hacked but, like the Black Knight from Monty Python & The Holy Grail, is still lying around limbless looking for a fight. Xbit Labs is claiming that Microsoft has contracted the Samsung/Toshiba joint venture, Toshiba-Samsung Storage Technology Corp. to build external Blu-ray disc drives for the 360. The drives will reputedly cost from $100-$150 to allow an Xbox 360 Blu-ray bundle to compete favourably against the Sony PS3. So far, Microsoft has denied reports of an internal Blu-ray player and even dissed the long-term viability of the format but if it’s ever going to do it, now in the run up to Christmas - or at the CES 2009 show in January - would be the obvious choices. After all, digital movie downloads are just taking off and the quality of HD movie downloads is nowhere near as good as Blu-ray because the files would be way too big and take too long to download. What does it mean for Microsoft? Sure it means gritting its teeth and conceding ultimate kudos to Sony and Blu-ray but what’s that against tens of millions of dollars in its coffers from HD-starved Xbox 360 owners? [Xbit Labs] microsoft blu-ray xbox
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Original post by nafiz