http://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/08/microsoft-demos-xbox-360-hd-dvd-player-menus/ Engadget HD Comments for Microsoft demos Xbox 360 HD DVD player, menus [Updated image] http://hd.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://hd.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/08/microsoft-demos-xbox-360-hd-dvd-player-menus/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/08/microsoft-demos-xbox-360-hd-dvd-player-menus/
Umm...because they wanted to get the 360 to market in Nov. 2005 (as opposed to Nov. 2006 for Sorny), and HD-DVD wasn't ready to market yet at that time. Kinda like how Bluray still isn't ready for primetime... (cropping? On 1080p? Seriously!?)]]>Aug 8th 2006 9:02AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/08/microsoft-demos-xbox-360-hd-dvd-player-menus/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/08/microsoft-demos-xbox-360-hd-dvd-player-menus/Aug 8th 2006 9:58AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/08/microsoft-demos-xbox-360-hd-dvd-player-menus/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/08/microsoft-demos-xbox-360-hd-dvd-player-menus/
Also the fact that they didn't build it into the Xbox360 from day one is part of their strategy against Sony and the PS3. You can buy a Xbox 360 for $299 and play all the games and DVD's you want whereas with the PS3 you are being forced to pay $600 regardless of wanting a Blu-Ray player or not. You guys are not gamers but this is all about choice.

I know you guys love your Blu-Ray but lets stop being so bias :)]]>Aug 8th 2006 10:07AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/08/microsoft-demos-xbox-360-hd-dvd-player-menus/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/08/microsoft-demos-xbox-360-hd-dvd-player-menus/Aug 8th 2006 10:17AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/08/microsoft-demos-xbox-360-hd-dvd-player-menus/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/08/microsoft-demos-xbox-360-hd-dvd-player-menus/Aug 8th 2006 10:58AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/08/microsoft-demos-xbox-360-hd-dvd-player-menus/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/08/microsoft-demos-xbox-360-hd-dvd-player-menus/Aug 8th 2006 11:05AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/08/microsoft-demos-xbox-360-hd-dvd-player-menus/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/08/microsoft-demos-xbox-360-hd-dvd-player-menus/Aug 8th 2006 11:11AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/08/microsoft-demos-xbox-360-hd-dvd-player-menus/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/08/microsoft-demos-xbox-360-hd-dvd-player-menus/
I don't see how the PS3 is going to help Blu-Ray so much... There will be many more PS3's in Japan than in the US and I would be surprised if the folks in Japan are clammoring to watch our American movies on their PS3! (studio support really only matters in the US doesn't it? Last I heard there was only one big international studio and they were supporting HD-DVD...)
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Right. All those news reports are obviously wrong. Us Americans just hate the PS3, which is why everyone's expecting them to sit on the docks when they get here. No one's expecting preorders or lines or anything.

"(studio support really only matters in the US doesn't it? Last I heard there was only one big international studio and they were supporting HD-DVD..."

So Sony, a Japanese company with 15% of the video market share isn't big or international? And none of the other major studios release anywhere but the US? Jesus, man. Think before you type.]]>Aug 8th 2006 12:11PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/08/microsoft-demos-xbox-360-hd-dvd-player-menus/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/08/microsoft-demos-xbox-360-hd-dvd-player-menus/
Name the last Blu-Ray or HD-DVD movie you heard of that was released in a different company that isn't an american movie... I haven't heard of ANY... there may be TONS of movies in Japan on Blu-Ray... they have had Blu-Ray drives for more than a year now... but whens the last time we heard about then in releation to this format war?]]>Aug 8th 2006 1:03PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/08/microsoft-demos-xbox-360-hd-dvd-player-menus/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/08/microsoft-demos-xbox-360-hd-dvd-player-menus/
Yes. Most American movies are as popular, if not more so, in Japan and the rest of the world. Perhaps if you actually read the news reports and saw the figures, you wouldn't stick your foot in your mouth with every comment.

"Name the last Blu-Ray or HD-DVD movie you heard of that was released in a different company [ed: do you mean country?] that isn't an american movie... I haven't heard of ANY"

There's several non-American movies--as well as a couple American titles not released in the US--here:
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-14-71-ye.html
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2. Half the money Hollywood pulls in comes from overseas.

3. Here is a link to some pictures of the drive. It is huge, but from what I heard on the Major Nelson podcast it may need to be. http://news.com.com/Microsoft+shows+off+HD+DVD+drive+for+Xbox/2100-1041_3-6103069.html?tag=nefd.pulse
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I think the PS3 may have the edge, as it is sleek and complete - Sony have designed in the Blu-ray drive from the begining whereas Microsoft have just bolted it on in a rather ugly fasion, hense there is no native support for HDMI.]]>Aug 9th 2006 12:19PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/08/microsoft-demos-xbox-360-hd-dvd-player-menus/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/08/microsoft-demos-xbox-360-hd-dvd-player-menus/
Just another reason to buy a PS3!!]]>Aug 9th 2006 1:07PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/08/microsoft-demos-xbox-360-hd-dvd-player-menus/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/08/microsoft-demos-xbox-360-hd-dvd-player-menus/Aug 9th 2006 1:11PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/08/microsoft-demos-xbox-360-hd-dvd-player-menus/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/08/microsoft-demos-xbox-360-hd-dvd-player-menus/
everybody complains about not be able to choose to have or not an HD-DVD or Blue Ray drive in a console instead of thinking: I choose not to buy a ps3 or a 360!! the choice is here!

Buying a ps3 is buying new technology for games: blue ray is more space for several languages, super sound, less compressed textures, etc etc. There's gonna be a time when developers will need that space! saying DVD is far anough is stupid. We would have stayed with a 15 meg cardrige if games didn't need space!

Having a HD-DVD on 360, why not if it's cheap. But I won't buy one on my 360, it's just useless.
Microsoft did great with XBL, but made a series of mistakes too when wanting to be first... (no hdmi, no next gen drive FOR GAMES, region coded games, no use of HDD for games either etc etc.).
Think again before always complaining about PS3 price and its "forced" blue ray player. better that way:not only can it delivers huge space for games and high quality sound and pictures, but it can play blue ray movies TOO!]]>Aug 11th 2006 12:50PM