nathsgames
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 Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:48 pm Post subject: Renewed BluRay Xbox360 Rumours - Liteon Manufacturing? |
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Well, those pesky BluRay Xbox 360 rumours will just not die. Here are two interesting reads from the interwebs which are doing their best to re-ignite the rumour mill..... Personally I would re-buy a blu-ray model, as long as they could do something about the 120db fan noise!
NEWS: 1 April 2008 11:23 GMT by Amy-Mae Elliott
Lite-On is developing built-in Blu-ray disc drives for the Microsoft Xbox 360 game console, according to industry sources, reports the DigiTimes.
Lite-On's shipments of the drives to Microsoft will start in the second half of 2008 and be for a "next-gen" 360 model, the sources said.
Microsoft has decided to switch to BD for its Xbox 360 game consoles after Toshiba announced the discontinuation of HD DVD, the sources said - despite Microsoft officially denying this recently.
Giving the rumours a bit more credibility - Lite-On is currently one of the suppliers of Xbox 360's internal DVD-ROM drives. Lite-On declined to comment, citing client confidentiality.
source: http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.phtml/13725/14749/lite-on-producing-blu-ray-for-xbox.phtml
NEWS: 2 April 2008 13:15 GMT by Amy-Mae Elliott
News from the Far East manufacturing world has suggested that, despite the company's previous denials on the topic, Microsoft plans to offer a new model of the Xbox 360 equipped with a Blu-ray drive in order to better compete with Sony's PlayStation 3.
DigiTimes is now reporting that "if" Microsoft adopts built-in Blu-ray disc drives for a new version of its Xbox 360, the price to the consumer will "be lower than the corresponding production costs".
Although the Blu-ray flavoured drives are said to be around $80 more expensive than the current DVD drives in existing Xboxes, it's suggesting that Microsoft will swallow that cost so as to offer the Blu-ray equipped PS3 a run for its money in the console market.
The speculation continues that Sony may well respond with price-cuts of its own, which would obviously only be a good thing for the average gaming consumer.
source: http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.phtml/13752/14776/view.phtml
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