Microsoft HD DVD Drive
If Dell soars can Microsoft be far behind? Microsoft in the later par of this year plans to offer an add-on HD DVD drive as an accessory for the Xbox 360 console. Bill Gates at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas announced it however, no price or launch date has been given.
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Last Wednesday Toshiba Corp also launched its HD-DVD players and they will be priced at $500-$800.
This will allow all Xbox 360 users watch HDTV hi-res movie. MS last year before the launch of Xbox 360 confirmed its provisions on HD-DVD.
Microsoft has not officially announced the number of Xbox 360 it has shipped so far, but a conservative approximation, it won't be not less than 1 million cases worldwide. Microsoft aims to ship 5.5 million by June.
The new discs are essentially DVDs on steroids. Both formats use blue lasers, instead of DVD's red one, to read more tightly packed data stored on the discs. They will also read current DVDs.But there are differences: HD-DVD supporters, including Toshiba and Universal, tout the less expensive production shift. The Blu-Ray group, which includes most electronics companies and major studios, boasts that its capacity is 50 Gigabytes vs. HD-DVD's 30 GB. (A current DVD holds 9.4 GB at most.)
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