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Microsoft To Drop HD DVD
HockeyPuck writes to let us know that Microsoft has decided to stop making HD DVD players for the Xbox 360. No word on supporting Blu-ray on the platform though. "Microsoft said Saturday it would continue to provide standard warranty support for its HD DVD players. Toshiba President Atsutoshi Nishida last week estimated about 300,000 people own the Microsoft video player, sold as a separate $130 add-on for the Xbox 360."
They are now called "Upconverting DVD players". And I hear they are all the rage these days. Didn't you read the fliers in todays paper?
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They'll probably be too busy laughing to say anything.
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Microsoft today announced a new High Definition DVD format they have labeled MSOpenDVD. Microsoft chairthrower Steve Ballmer said, "this is a very exciting project by combining MSOpenDRM with our SilverLight technology and embedding the DVD data in XML we have created an open extensible platform that will confound anti-trust regulators for decades - Muhahahaha".
The MSOpenDVD format will be publicly released under the Microsoft patent promise next quarter.
... the cartridge to make a comeback.
if the background isn't geen then it doesn't need to be read.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
As the saying goes, "if you get into bed with Microsoft, you're going to get fucked."
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You mean like HD DVD?
I too hope that Sony will drop the other shoe and open access to the GPU. And while they're at it, NVidia should open their chip specs as well. Maybe Sony will do the right thing a littler closer to the end of the product cycle. One factor in favor: Sony is going to have to answer Microsoft's opening up the XBox last week. Actually, this is competition working properly, Microsoft is doing some good by applying pressure to Sony over the current development restrictions that in practice gain Sony nothing, and which if removed could gain them a lot of mind share, never mind bringing in a new wave of cell engine programmers.
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