MS to release Xbox 360 with HD-DVD in 2006
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speng said:When I say choice, if MS really wanted to give you choice. They'd offer a Blu-Ray drive too
If you read a few articles on some of the possibilities as to why MS is pushing HD-DVD you'd see it could be far more profitable for them to keep the battle going and create consumer confusion in the HD format wars.
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ITs a financial choice at the moment. A la carte, pay for what you want. Choice doesnt have to mean selling your competitors product. But this is only getting started, they may yet offer BR.
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expletive said:HD-DVD players launching in Spring at $499. I'm guessing throughout 2006 it will eb at least $100 cheaper.
Good to see that this HD-DVD drive will cost the same amount as the Wi-Fi add-on.
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expletive said:
But do they have to be competitors with everything? Even Toshiba is putting CELLs in their TVs.
mckmas8808 said:Good to see that this HD-DVD drive will cost the same amount as the Wi-Fi add-on.
Well i said it will be at least $100 cheaper, not cost $100.
(though it probably will eb $100 )However, I think not having 802.11a might be a problem for streaming HD video to/from down the road.
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wco81 said:
Streaming the compressed data from the disc shouldn't be a problem for USB2. I think it's got, what, 400 Mb/s to play with? It's the digital feed after decompression from the XeCPU that is the riddle. If there is to be an HDMI output anywhere, there needs to be a digital out that can feed this at full bandwidth. Like I was saying before, this could potentially be in the Gb/s range (say, .5-1.5 Gb/s, if I were to give a plausible range). USB2 would be no match for that. Ethernet link is a possibility, but it will need to be 1+ Gb/s capable. A standard 100 Mb/s NIC won't cut it.
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expletive said:Well i said it will be at least $100 cheaper, not cost $100.
However, I think not having 802.11a might be a problem for streaming HD video to/from down the road.
Weren't everybody complaining about MS's high pricing with accessories? So, why will the HD-DVD add-on be cheap (relative speaking)?
Megadrive1988
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AzBat said:
that thing, the Nintendo Disc (which was one of the last variants of the SNES CD-ROM) officially contained a 21 MHz (RISC?) CPU, a CD-ROM controller (called HANDS) to help with loading, and perhaps better graphics hardware (that part is unofficial) and boosted the SNES into a 32-bit console.
the HD-DVD for Xbox360 sounds just like a movie player. it does not boost 360's core chipset specifications
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expletive said:
Full bandwidth digital video is the whole point of HDMI (aside from copy protection)- it's used on the "decompressed" side, rather than the "compressed" side of the chain. Otherwise, a standalone HD-DVD player would simply be an optical drive and the HDTV would have to do the decoding. I don't think that's what they intend for the video medium of the future. What you suggest, otoh, does make more sense, though. 34 Mb/s is certainly a whole lot easier to pass over a wire than 1 Gb/s.
Full bandwidth digital video over a copper wire is utter madness, imo. (...but it seems that is what the industry has accepted, nonetheless...)
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i bet you it will snap on to the bottom of the 360, and come with a new faceplate to give the unit the appearence of one piece, plugs into the usb 2.0 port. that would actually be pretty slick, about 1" taller with the hd-dvd logo, but judging by the $40 CAD pos wired headset I saw at futureshop today, the price of this thing is gonna be steep, $200+
i guess they could sell the media edition, faceplate included, bundled with hd-dvd, then core, then premium. holy shit, so all the 3 SKU rumors were right all along...external drive though HA! It's actually not too bad as everything is upgradeable, and the 360 as a core always functions as a game machine/vista extender.
i guess they could sell the media edition, faceplate included, bundled with hd-dvd, then core, then premium. holy shit, so all the 3 SKU rumors were right all along...external drive though HA! It's actually not too bad as everything is upgradeable, and the 360 as a core always functions as a game machine/vista extender.
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randycat99 said:Full bandwidth digital video is the whole point of HDMI (aside from copy protection). Otherwise, a standalone HD-DVD player would simply be an optical drive and the HDTV would have to do the decoding. I don't think that's what they intend for the video medium of the future. What you suggest, otoh, does make more sense, though. 34 Mb/s is certainly a whole lot easier to pass over a wire than 1 Gb/s.
Ya sorry i edited my response above, wco pointed it out earlier. Nah it would send the uncompressed video over HDMI, you're right. I have to let this sink in...
Megadrive1988 said:
"Sounds" and "it does not" ? You somehow know more than us? LOL I was just posting the image for humor's sake. I just think it's funny that Sony fans are making fun of an optical add-on drive when if it wasn't for the SNES add-on there would have never been a PlayStation, PlayStation2 or PlayStation3. If Microsoft's HD-DVD add-on drive is made by Toshiba, then Sony and Microsoft better watch out for the next-gen! LOL
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expletive said:
I love to understand why a controller would cost half the price as a full out HD-DVD drive.
randycat99 said:
So youre saying the uncompressed data stream would ahve to come BACK through the USB2 port? I guess 2 obvious answers (without requireing a fully functional HD-DVD player in the add-on) would be:
1. That the 360 can output HDMI by some means.
2. the HD-DVD consortium are going to allow the sigal out over component video
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