Will Nextbox have a Blu-Ray drive?

[DirtyP2002]

dsgrue3 said:

DirtyP2002 said:

HD-DVD was not a MS product. That was Toshiba. 
And Sony pays royalties to MS for using BluRay, because it uses one of MS patents. MS did not and will not lose anything.

Microsoft has no patents on bluray technology, they were supporting HD-DVD, you are completely clueless.

Clueless?! BluRay uses Microsoft Software for compression!

"For video, all players are required to support H.262/MPEG-2 Part 2, H.264/MPEG-4 Part 10: AVC, and SMPTE VC-1.^[112] MPEG-2 is the compression standard used on regular DVDs, which allows backwards compatibility. MPEG-4 AVC was developed by MPEG, Sony, and VCEG. VC-1 is a compression standard that was mainly developed by Microsoft."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BluRay

Do you think MS did develop this for charity and gave to to the BDA?

Sure MS supported HD-DVD, but they had no big investment in it at all.