Microsoft confirms official support of Blu-ray
Posted Mar 12th 2008 2:30PM by Terrence Stasse
Filed under: News
It's been
bandied about before, but now we have real word from Microsoft that they are indeed going to be supporting the defacto winner of the format war. With
Sony saying that they were "in talks" with Microsoft, and a clam-like strategy being adopted by Microsoft, no one was quite sure just how spited they were towards Blu-ray.
This is jus the confirmation of things though,
with Microsoft admitting that it is trying to figure out the best way to connect with Blu-ray, and that it is working on different ways to integrate the Blu-ray devices and technology into Microsoft products across the board, including Windows.
Tags: blu-ray, microsoft
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3-12-2008 @ 2:37PM
Chris said...
This will piss the ps3fanboys off lol
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3-12-2008 @ 2:46PM
Christian King said...
I'm looking forward to connecting a Blu-Ray player to my Xbox
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3-12-2008 @ 2:49PM
Cyrus said...
..."And in other hews, Hell has frozen over."
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3-12-2008 @ 2:49PM
emirabal said...
Now i can aim to get the 360BLU-ELITE SKU when it comes out and have the Dark Blue Xbox360 that plays blu ray discs and has an hdmi output and a 300 gb hard drive for the transferring of movies in a smaller format similar to the psp conversion from blu ray discs, woooo, i can dream cant I.
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3-12-2008 @ 2:51PM
xenocidic said...
EH AND I JUST BOUGHT A GOSH-DARN HD-DVDEN !!!
;>
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3-12-2008 @ 2:51PM
Sean said...
So we have the best games, and now support for the optical disk format - whereas the PS3 just has the latter, oh boy :)
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3-12-2008 @ 2:52PM
Syn said...
@Chris
Why would this piss off PS3Fanboys?
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3-12-2008 @ 2:53PM
webster1990 said...
clam-like?
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3-12-2008 @ 2:54PM
ZEBRA NINER said...
Lame. I guess it's good to head off the people considering buying a PS3 for the blu-ray player... If it's not dirt cheap, I don't see why people wouldn't just put down the extra cash and get a gaming system out of it too.
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3-12-2008 @ 2:58PM
Don said...
Actually Chris, I own a PS3, have never owned anything other than Playstation, and I find this news pretty cool. It must have been bitter sweet for Sony to head the negotiations with MicroSoft. This is actually great news too because the more you integrate blu-ray, the more it will start to drive the cost down. It's actually better for all of us that own Sony.
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3-12-2008 @ 3:01PM
Garrett Hedley said...
It was fun while it lasted...
You won Sony, this time.
-_-
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3-12-2008 @ 3:06PM
JakubK666 said...
@ Zebra back in times, PS3 WAS the cheapest Blu-Ray player but this sad myth just hangs onto this console.
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3-12-2008 @ 3:07PM
thisguyrighthere said...
Still don't care about movies. Won't be buying a blu-ray anytime in the foreseeable future.
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3-12-2008 @ 3:11PM
Chris said...
@syn
Why would people buy a ps3 now ?
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3-12-2008 @ 3:13PM
Eric B said...
This is a good thing. Bluray won the format war and Microsoft has recognized it and is making efforts to implement it. I was looking at buying a PS3 for the Bluray, but now I think I might just wait and see what the price of the addon to the xbox might be.
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3-12-2008 @ 3:14PM
Sky Shark X2 said...
Well Sony's probably gonna loose the lowest Priced Blu Ray player in a few months, won't suprise me if Microsoft does a Price drop then realeases a Blu Ray Add on that when bought along with the Arcade SKU would still be lower than the PS3 base model.
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3-12-2008 @ 3:14PM
joba78 said...
I believe the Blu-Ray player will be an add-on that looks just like the HD-DVD add-on; except in a diff color scheme.
MS can use existing materials to produce the hardware and claim support for the format. Win-win!
I caught an HD_DVD drive for $50...I think it will be my only stop in this HD disc media forest. Games are not benefitting from using these discs IMO
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3-12-2008 @ 3:19PM
boomh4u3r said...
Games on BR perhaps?
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3-12-2008 @ 3:20PM
Boomh4u3r said...
Games on BR for 360?
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3-12-2008 @ 3:21PM
ZEBRA NINER said...
Jakub666, even if it's still not the cheapest, it's a matter of value. Consumers will think, "if I just pay a little more I can play games too."
So, which blu-ray player is cheaper than the ps3? Just curious.
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