Microsoft Longhorn To Support HD DVD Format

MSDVD writes "Microsoft's Japanese Division reported that its upcoming operating system, code-named Longhorn, will support HD DVD format. HD DVD is an enhanced version of the standard DVD technology. According to online reports, Microsoft is pushing the next-generation blue-laser DVD technology like NEC and Toshiba. Blue-light technology can read and write data much faster and at higher densities, which is needed for high-definition content. Few Japanese companies said they will have HD DVD content based DVDs by next year to support the players."

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DVD going the way of Betamax?

[SIGALRM]

Microsoft's Japanese Division reported that its upcoming operating system, code-named Longhorn, will support HD DVD format

I'm not so sure the DVD format itself will still be around by the time Longhorn eventually ships--after all, we're still waiting for SP2...

Re:DVD going the way of Betamax?

[El-Kelvinator]

By the time Longhorn ships, we will have 0.5" think laptops running at 3Ghz with quad cores, and blu-ray players will be rife in the market.
Not to mention hovercars, antigrav boots, and cloned pets...

Well, 2 out of 3 ain't bad.

Longhorn - Blue Light Special.

[www.sorehands.com]

I can see it now at K-Mart -- "Blue light special on LongHorn in the bed&bath^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^hstereo department.

Or to paraphrase "Men in Black"

[the_skywise]

"Guess I'll have to buy the White Album again."

MS Longhorn also to support...

[Eberlin]

Time travel -- as the OS gets postponed further into the future, efforts are underway to have built in time-travel.

Space travel -- care of Paul Allen. Everyone who can afford to purchase a copy of Longhorn will get vouchers for a free ride on SpaceShip-ME.

OogaBoogle will be built in. This is Microsoft's next generation search engine. Incorporating Yukon into the filesystem, folks will be able to wade through all the metadata they could ever want, and more!

Plug and Play support for the USB 5.0 matter transmogrifier. We don't have a prototype yet, but um...by the time Longhorn is stable, I'm sure we'll have the transmogrifier supported.

IE will be fully xhtml 1.0 and CSS1 compliant.

Lastly, each package will be bundled with Duke Nukem Forever.

Re:Wow

[Anonymous Coward]

It's all about the porn, dude. Always has been.

HD DVD format.

[mikael]

Microsoft's Japanese Division reported that its upcoming operating system, code-named Longhorn, will support HD DVD format.

How else would we be able to download and install all the new features and security patches?

Re:Blu-ray

[Anonymous Coward]

They probably had it in for Blu-ray since the beginning... thats why they gave it the 'Blue screen of death'

*ducks*

In Other News...

[ravenspear]

MIcrosoft's fulfillment department announced that a serious effort will be made to ship the Longhorn operating system before the emerging HD DVD standard becomes obsolete.

NEWS FLASH

[scum-e-bag]

Today developers announced that the upcomming 3D Action game "Duke Nukem" will require a computer with blu-ray enabled technology. "Due to the size of bitmaps and the advancements made in technology lately gamers will need much more storage capacity for the product we are about to deliver" said one enthusiastic developer. The game is due to be released just after the long anticipated next-generation Microsoft operating system codename "Longhorn", which is expected to fully support Duke Nukem.

Erm, how about "No shit, Sherlock?"

[pandrijeczko]

This sounds like more of a lame Microsoft attempt to keep Longhorn in the public's mind rather than anything of great interest.

I suspect we'll have more "declarations of intent" from MS over the next couple of years so that we don't forget about Longhorn, like:

"Gates says 640GB should be enough memory for anyone running Longhorn"

"Ballmer dresses in a tu-tu and chants 'Longhorn' repeatedly on stage at an MS Developer conference"

"Microsoft say Longhorn will be more secure than Windows"

etc.

I don't know about "Longhorn" but thinking about it just gives me a "floppy"...