Comments on Microsoft says no Blu-ray for Xbox 360| Special Coverage| Reuters

• Microsoft says no Blu-ray for Xbox 360| Special Coverage| Reuters
• Microsoft Corp is not in talks to include Sony Corp’s Blu-ray high-definition DVD technology in its Xbox 360 video game console, an executive said on Wednesday.
  

  The comments by Aaron Greenberg, group product manager for Xbox 360, poured cold water on recent speculation that Microsoft could support Blu-ray after Toshiba Corp (6502.T: Quote, Profile, Research), backer of the rival HD DVD format, gave up when key movie studios …

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  Dammit, now I’m going to have to buy a blu ray player… but not for a good long while. Dvds will work just fine for me right now.

  no soup for you!

  Microsoft says no Blu-ray for Xbox 360….
  Consumers say no to HD-DVD…

  Go figure.

  Now Jimi Hendrix… He was an experience.

  BLU RAY IS FUTURE PROOF!!!!!!!! No new HD technology will evarrrr come out again!!!!!!!!!
  /sarcasm

  Personally, I just find a nice torrent site, get one or two movies a week (to avoid MPAA/ISP complications) hook my laptop up to my TV and surround system and enjoy new High Definition movies at absolutely no cost. I think everyone should really consider flash memory to be a viable distribution source sometime within the next 5-10 years as well.

  I for one welcome our new [flash memory] masters.

  My guess is that they’ll wait to bring Blu-ray over to their next gen console. By the time they go through the deals and the production the player would probably only be around for a year or two before a new system is announced.

  Did anyone actually think Sony and Micro$oft were gonna play nice?