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Fuzzy Logic HD DVD not yet dead for Xbox 360 – final update?
Fuzzy Logic HD DVD not yet dead for Xbox 360 – final update? | HD DVD not yet dead for Xbox 360 – final update? |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Thursday, 10 April 2008 | |
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Xbox man ‘Major Nelson’ has posted details of what could be – but isn’t guaranteed to be – the last HD DVD player update for the Xbox 360. The update is said to include compatibility improvements with “certain titles”, without actually specifying which titles those are, and offers “additional support for network features”. Although the update will happen automatically for HD DVD add-on owners connected and signed into Xbox Live, there is also a manually downloadable update due to become available from a specific download area on Xbox.com “later this week”. One semi-comedian at Major Nelson’s blog lamented the fact the update wouldn’t magically transform the Xbox 360 HD DVD add-on into a Blu-ray player. Microsoft have come out several times this year to deny they are planning a Blu-ray add-on for the Xbox 360. Back on March 12, Reuters ran a report quoting Aaron Greenberg, the group product manager for Xbox 360, in an interview saying that “"Xbox is not currently in talks with Sony or the Blu-ray Association to integrate Blu-ray into the Xbox experience” and noting that the Xbox 360 is “the only console offering digital distribution of entertainment content”. Obviously ‘entertainment’ in this case refers to movies and TV shows, and not that other amazing form of entertainment called ‘games’, for Sony and Nintendo would certainly have something to say about that – Nintendo’s ‘virtual console’ selling game content is, after all, a form of ‘digital distribution of entertainment content’. But I don't believe Microsoft - do you? Please read onto page 2. |
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