In theory there is no need to. The 360 has USB ports so there is no technical reason it couldn't work with an external player already out there. And the console could probably decode the video and audio too since it managed it for HD DVD. The issue probably has more to do with politics than anything else. It's strange in a way that they don't have a model with an internal BD drive and playback capability because its a major feature that the PS3 has and the 360 hasn't.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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In theory there is no need to. The 360 has USB ports so there is no technical reason it couldn't work with an external player already out there. And the console could probably decode the video and audio too since it managed it for HD DVD. The issue probably has more to do with politics than anything else. It's strange in a way that they don't have a model with an internal BD drive and playback capability because its a major feature that the PS3 has and the 360 hasn't.