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Dolla Dolla on 23 February 2008

http://gamerscoreblog.com/team/archive/2008/02/23/HDDVDSupport.aspx

As a result of recent decisions made by Toshiba, Hollywood studios, and retailers, Microsoft plans to withdraw from HD DVD.  Xbox will no longer manufacture new HD DVD players for the Xbox 360, but we will continue to provide standard product and warranty support for all Xbox 360 HD DVD Players in the market.  As we stated earlier, we do not believe this decision will have any material impact on the Xbox 360 platform or our position in the marketplace.  HD DVD is one of the several ways we offer a high definition experience to consumers and we will continue to give consumers the choice to enjoy digital distribution of high definition movies and TV shows directly to their living room, along with playback of the DVD movies they already own.

 

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madskillz on 23 February 2008

Yeah ... and I don't see them rolling out a Blu Ray add-on anyhow ... especially with just a 3 percent attach rate.



--OkeyDokey-- on 23 February 2008

So is the format war over? :O



kingofwale on 23 February 2008

*sighs*, I was just helping some poor kid buying a HD-DVD player Add on today. 130 dollars, Sorry lad.



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kenzomatic on 23 February 2008

^ Wow thats sad (not for you the kid)



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HappySqurriel on 23 February 2008
madskillz said:
Yeah ... and I don't see them rolling out a Blu Ray add-on anyhow ... especially with just a 3 percent attach rate.

Personally, I never saw the HD-DVD player add-on as anything except for a marketing gimick and as a result I wouldn't be too surprised to see a Blu-Ray player add-on.

If Microsoft can get the Arcade down to $200 (a fairly easy task I would assume) and could sell a Blu-Ray player add-on for $150 to $200 (once again, a fairly easy task) they can now advertize that they too have Blu-Ray playback at $350 or $400 ...



BottledSpringWater on 23 February 2008

@ kingofwales: Maybe that kid can return it for full refund? Actually it's the kid's own damn fault for buying one!
Damn it must have suck for those people who bought that piece of junk.



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DMeisterJ on 24 February 2008

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LordTheNightKnight on 24 February 2008
BottledSpringWater said:
@ kingofwales: Maybe that kid can return it for full refund? Actually it's the kid's own damn fault for buying one!
Damn it must have suck for those people who bought that piece of junk.

Because it isn't possible to enjoy what movies there are. It has magically stopped working now. [/sarcasm]

Come on. Don't you realize all these HD-DVD players can still be used as a way for the wary to get into HD, with less risk, and that if they do like it, they will likely get into the formats still available?

Again, the drive can be a way to hook people on to HD with them being confident they aren't putting up too much money in case they don't like it. If they do, they would most definately hop onto Blu-Ray/Digital Distribution/etc. 



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Fonzerelli on 24 February 2008

Do we need the HD-DVD player to upscale dvd's, i thought the x360 upscaled dvd's natively.



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