I posted this another thread this thought.
Dvd9 has far less storage space than Blu-ray. 100% truth no arguement there right. Now my understanding (and logically so) is that compression algorithims do take a smidge of processing power and (erhaps) time to load and activate. This could explain the reason for the pop-in issues in many of their games.
As far as I can discern the only way to fix this issue is to start putting in Blu-ray drives. If MS does do this and they add this x-mote controller that's been rumored they pretty much affirm that Sony and Nintendo make a better console than them.
It's sort of like what happened with the Genesis, they had a clear lead in the console war that gen and blew it by adding a Sega Cd and 32x add-ons. It made their console seem inferior to Ninty's.
God I sincerely hope that happens. :P
