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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 3,830 |
| | Posted: | | | | By Wolfgang GruenerMicrosoft still denies that it will be offering a Blu-ray extension for its Xbox 360 game console and gave every indication that it might skip the Blu-ray trend altogether and focus on movie downloads. Not so fast, says Xbit Labs, which learned that an external Blu-ray drive for the Xbox 360 is ready to ship. Guess which company allegedly manufactures this drive. | | | | Sources for one or more of the changes and/or additions were not submitted. Please include the sources for your changes in the contribution notes, especially for cast and crew additions. |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 4,595 |
| | Posted: | | | | Not surprising in the least. MS would be fools if they didn't support Blu-Ray in some way. Although, personally, I don't see Blu-Ray catching on as well as Sony et al had hoped. If it survives beyond 5 years I'd be surprised. | | | | My WebGenDVD online Collection |
| | Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,916 |
| | Posted: | | | | Blu-Ray will be around for awhile - as the prices of the players and HDTV's come down, more and more people will be taking the plunge.
But if Microsoft really is claiming to skip the Blu trend outright, that sounds like a temper tantrum to me. |
| | Registered: August 3, 2008 |  Posts: 62 |
| | Posted: | | | | HD TV's are dropping very quickly and will even more when the Ultra Thin OLED tv's start to become more common and realistic in price.
As for X-box selling the Blu ray drives, can't see them giving money to there bigest rival sony. Would be toatal egg on there faces after the massive flop of HD-DVD's. | | | | Is it me? Or is Wilma Flintstone the most desirable women in the world? |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 90 |
| | Posted: | | | | G4 is also reporting this also. But they are saying samsung and toshiba(?!?) are working on it.
I believe samsung might be, but toshiba stance onupconverting is their strategy and doesn't make sense. So this leads me to believe it is just a rumor. | | | | The artist formerly known as TylerDurden_73 |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 315 |
| | Posted: | | | | Toshiba is the manufacturer of many (most?) of the custom chips inside the XBox and XBox360.
Toshiba is one of the world's biggest custom chips designer together with Philips, Risc, TI and very few others. A custom chip designer (like the name says) will design and/or manufacture specific chips for a costumer according to its specifications. Microsoft has been one of Toshiba's good costumers for chip designing and manufacturing for many years now.
They (of course) also design and manufacture chips for themselves/their products. But the strategy they follow for their own product line has nothing to do with what the custom chips dept. makes for their costumers.
Example: The largest manufacturer of Blu-Ray drives is TSST Corp., half-owned by Toshiba (Toshiba-Samsung Storage Technology Corp.) that supplies most brands. | | | | With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress. |
| | Registered: August 3, 2008 | | Posts: 62 |
| | Posted: | | | | Sorry, typed up in wrong thread!  Quoting Skywatcher: Quote:
Toshiba is the manufacturer of many (most?) of the custom chips inside the XBox and XBox360.
Toshiba is one of the world's biggest custom chips designer together with Philips, Risc, TI and very few others. A custom chip designer (like the name says) will design and/or manufacture specific chips for a costumer according to its specifications. Microsoft has been one of Toshiba's good costumers for chip designing and manufacturing for many years now.
They (of course) also design and manufacture chips for themselves/their products. But the strategy they follow for their own product line has nothing to do with what the custom chips dept. makes for their costumers.
Example: The largest manufacturer of Blu-Ray drives is TSST Corp., half-owned by Toshiba (Toshiba-Samsung Storage Technology Corp.) that supplies most brands. | | | | Is it me? Or is Wilma Flintstone the most desirable women in the world? | | | | Last edited: by elmfc23 |
| | Registered: August 26, 2008 | | Posts: 12 |
| | Posted: | | | | Microsoft on't be the loser in this... They kept their powder dry and backed both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. They don't care about which technology is used, they just care about selling games... Its all about the money, not the pride. |
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