Bluray within 3 months?

Riesen_Meal

http://xboxfamily.com/xf/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1409&Itemid=2

We’re taking this with a grain of salt due to the source of the info, but… Smarthouse, an Australian technology news site, is reporting that Microsoft “insiders” from the US have told them there’s already a Blu ray drive complete and just waiting for final testing. They report that we could see the add-on unit very soon.

The reason we think this report is hokey is simple. It’s the same site that reported they knew there was an internal HD DVD drive in an upcoming Xbox 360 that would have been announced late last year. This seems like someone using a likely guess to make naïve readers take it as fact. And since 90% of gamers who read news on the internet think it is all fact, we expect this rumor to spread like wild fire.

While we do expect a Blu ray add-on at some point, let’s wait for a report from someone who didn’t guarantee an internal HD DVD drive months ago.

dazftw

Makes sense to buy one now that HD DVD is "dead" as it were!

Varik

no chance sony will play nice after all there other formats falling betamax and such

Vic Vinegar

Varik wrote: »

no chance sony will play nice after all there other formats falling betamax and such

Erm, Sony don't own Blu-Ray, do they...

BloodSugarSex

instead of a bluray add-on they should build the xbox ultimate with bluray built in

Fony Tenton

mountain lips wrote: »

Erm, Sony don't own Blu-Ray, do they...

Yup

Vic Vinegar

Fony Tenton wrote: »

Yup

No they don't!

Gran Hermano

I'm in no rush to get a blu-ray player for the 360, either
as an additional external drive or an internal drive in a new
and revised 360 console. Watching blu-rays is the only use
I get from PS3, if Microsoft offer me blu-ray on the 360 I'll
really have no need for my PS3 and it'll be an even bigger
dust magnet than it currently is.

eoin2nc

Would put money on this never happening. The main reason that there was a format war was HD-DVD using Microsofts HDi interface, and Blu-Ray using JAVA. Cant see M$ scraping their own fromat for one developed, mostly, by Sony that quickly. Prices of stand alone players will start to drop in price soon making a add-on pointless

Zonda999

Fony Tenton wrote: »

Yup

Sony jointly own blu-ray.They have just always been associated with it bcos of the ps3.Many companies are involved in blu-ray.Some are(at the moment anyway) supporting both bluray and hd-dvd. LG and Samsung for example

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc_Association#Members_2

Varik

The Blu-ray Disc Association was founded in May 2002 by nine leading electronic companies: Sony, Matsu****a, Pioneer, Philips, Thomson, LG Electronics, Hitachi, Sharp, and Samsung.

while your right that they don't own all of it, they do own a lot of the movie comps and that let them have a bit of an edge on the hd format.no on will cross them if the say no