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Why Microsoft Won't Have Blu-ray on the Xbox
Ian Lamont writes "Ever since Toshiba stopped production of HD DVD players, many Xbox 360 owners have been wondering when Microsoft will offer some sort of Blu-ray option for the Xbox 360. The answer: Probably never. Microsoft's product manager for the Xbox 360 has told Reuters that Microsoft is not in talks with Sony or the Blu-ray Association. Why not? The Industry Standard points to HDi, an obscure Microsoft technology that was part of the HD DVD interactivity layer. HDi may be dead on physical media, but it could potentially be applied to other Microsoft HD-compatible technologies such as Xbox Live Arcade and Windows Media Center, and be part of a long-term play to own a big share of the market for HD content delivered over the Internet."
Indeed. The best evidence of this is that there's still no iTunes for Linux, even though there are more Linux users than Mac users nowadays.
Yeah, that's strange, does anybody know why M$ made Office for the Mac? Although it would give them more money, it also makes it much easier for people to switch from Windoze to the Mac.
Every electronics manufacturer on the planet is well positioned to be the first ones out of the gate for the next generation of home theater / video game equipment. And the vast majority of them are better than Nintendo in all but one area: video games. And Nintendo's advantage there is 90% copyrighted characters from the 80s. The hardware and the OS are unremarkable.