Why are there still shortages of the Pro and Elite SKUs?

[Hawk]

ZenfoldorVGI said:
I talked to my friend @ gamestop today, and he confirmed shortages of the 360, and speculated that MS is drying to channels for a new SKU, that perhaps includes a Blu-Ray player addon, and a new motherboard, and will be advertised as "fixing the RRoD issue," to consumers.

Rumor has it, apparently, that Gates held off on the announcment of this SKU at CES because at that time, there was a HD-DVD player addon included. At the last minute, after news of the SKU leaked, and realizing if HD-DVD died, as news that week made it apparently possible, that it would be a huge PR disaster for MS.

It is likely that these shortages are due to vast removals of HD-DVD player addons and repackagings of this new SKU sans HD-DVD player, and possibly, but not probably including a Blu-Ray disc drive. Apparently MS wants to prevent the PS3 from dominating the HD movie player market by presenting an alternative to consumers.

 Huh.  Well, sweet.  Then I hope they actually do come out with a new "RRoD fixed, Blu-ray player" SKU.  Then I could exchange my current Xbox 360 in for the new SKU, when it gets it's RRoD here.  Hehe