Xbox availability updates [CLOSED]

maneesh_2

kinster wrote:

Hold on a minute. Have you actually read what I wrote?

Yes, unless I interpreted it wrong.

Sleep deprivation, it ain't a good thing waiting for argos since 4am.

tjsmangina

richto wrote:

HD DVD will ship first..

so what ? sega saturn released before ps1,laserdisc released before dvd,RAM was released before -rw.its not always the first out the stalls wins the race you know.



MICROSOFT are backing HD DVD that much they wont put them in there 360`s

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/15/ms_denies_xbox_360_hd_dvd/

these are the BLU RAY backers

- Sony Corporation (owns Aiwa Electronics, also with Sony Pictures Entertainment arm (owns Columbia Pictures,Tri-Star Pictures, MGM (who in turn owns United Artists/Orion Pictures and the Polygram older dvd library))
- Disney Corp (Touchstone Pictures, Buena Vista International, Miramax Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, Dimension Films)
- News Corp (Twentieth Century Fox Film, Fox searchlight)
- Viacom (owns Paramount Pictures & Home Entertainment, and 33% of United International Pictures)
- Time Warner Inc(Warner Brothers, New Line Cinema, Warner Music)
- Sony BMG Music Entertainment
- Hitachi Ltd
- Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Mitsubishi Kagaku Media Co Ltd (Verbatim)
- Panasonic (Matsusita Electric)
- Victor Company of Japan, Limited (subsidiary of Matsu)
- Pioneer Corporation
- Sharp Corporation
- TDK Corporation
- Yamaha Corporation
- D&M holdings Inc (Denon&Marantz)
- Onkyo Corporation
- Sanyo Electric Co Ltd
- Mitsumi Electric Co Ltd
- Kenwood TMI Corp
- Canon Inc
- Fuji Photo Film Co Ltd
- Ricoh Co Ltd
- Konica Minolta Opto Inc
- Alpine Electronics Inc
- Funai Electric Co Ltd
- TEAC Corporation
- Toho Company Ltd
- Toei Video Company Ltd
- Bandai Visual Co Ltd
- Apple Corp
- Dell Inc.
- Hewlett Packard Development Company
- Imation Corp
- Memorex Products Inc
- Texas Instruments Inc
- Sun Microsystems Inc
- Digital Theater Systems Inc
- Dolby Laboratories Inc
- Sigma Designs Inc
- nVidia Corporation
- Sdi Media America
- Electronic Arts Inc
- Lsi Logic Corporation
- LG Electronics Inc
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd
- Daewoo Electronics Corporation
- BenQ Corporation
- Lite-On It Corporation
- Ritek Corporation
- CMC Magnetics Corporation
- Optodisc Technology Corporation
- Prodisc Technology Inc
- MediaTek Inc
- Royal Philips Electronics
- Thomson
- Vivendi Universal Games
- Ati Technologies, Inc
- Meridian Audio Ltd
- Lions Gate Inc
- Universal Music
- Zoran corporation

these are HD DVD backers

Viacom (owns Paramount Pictures & Home Entertainment, and 33% of United International Pictures, now also 100% of Dreamworks)
General Electric majority owner & Vivendi 20% of NBC-Universal which includes Universal Pictures)
Time Warner Inc(Warner Brothers, New Line Cinema, Warner Music)
Microsoft Corp
Intel Corp
Toshiba-Samsung Storage Technologies (TSST)
NEC Corporation
Toshiba Corporation
Sanyo Corporation
Memory-Tech Corporation
Verbatim (Mitsubishi Kagaku Media Co Ltd)
Hitachi Maxell Ltd
D&M holdings Inc (Denon&Marantz)
Alpine Electronics Inc
Onkyo Corporation
Bandai Visual Co Ltd
Fuji Photo Film Co Ltd
Kenwood Corporation
Ricoh Company Ltd
Funai Electric Co Ltd
Ritek Corporation
Acer Inc
Konica Minolta Opto Inc
Teac Corporation
Sumitomo Heavy Industries Ltd
Toho Company Ltd
Digital Theater Systems Inc
Dolby Laboratories Inc
Imation Corp
Prodisc Technology Inc
Ritek Corporation
Thomson
Various Chinese electronic makers.


i dont see whats so bad about being a betamax II format anyway considering betamax was a hell of a lot better pic wise than VHS.

Browntoa

and what has your petty arguement got to do with Xbox availability ??

go over to the money saving arms and continue your debate over there !!!!!!

other people don't want to wade trough pages of this just to try and find an Xbox for their kids for Xmas !!!

tjsmangina

fair enough.

richto

Clearly you cant read - in the article you quote:

"the spokesman simply indicated no firm decision has been taken, and no formal announcement made. He didn't say the company wasn't considering such a move. Which of course, given Microsoft's support for HD DVD and arch-rival Sony's decision to build Blu-ray into the PlayStation 3, it may well be..."

Obviously they wouldnt want to announce 'hey when Sony launches the PS3 we will have HD DVD Xboxes' because this would massively impact current sales.

Your HD DVD list is missing HP - quite an important one.

As I implied the question is not how many companies back it, but who backs it, and how much it will cost. Microsoft including native support in Windows Vista for HD DVD, versus Blu Ray requiring $30 of licensable software has a MASSIVE impact.

Also HD DVD has HDi running a Windows like interactive integration solution built in, versus the limited capabilities of Java under Blu Ray. (You can run Java under Windows but not visa versa...)

izzy_flint

richto wrote:

Are you developing it then, because Sony when asked last week said they didnt yet know if it would be backwardly compatable with all games.

Oh and you realise you will be waiting until Xmas next year for it - assuming their schedule doesnt slip?

And it includes the HD DVD equivalent of a Betamax video recorder too...

And doesnt have anything to match Xbox Live.

Or the Media Centre Extender.

And will only let you play music from Sony DRM infested memory gate products


Even the Xbox 360 lightsynth 'Neon' when you play music is the <edited>...(written by Jeff Minter - Llamasoft) See http://www.llamasoft.co.uk/neon.php

"Remember what I said about Nuon and "computational resolution"? Well, without giving any secrets away and getting myself into trouble with Microsoft, I can tell you that the Xbox360 can bring to bear an absolutely *staggering* amount of computational power on each and every pixel, and never drop below 60 frames a second. The thing's a *monster*."
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To keep this thread what it is intended for i will answer this question (HERE) Patience 360: Ten Reasons to Wait for PS3

richto please take note of reason 4

richto

r.e # 4 and otherwise, See my full answer on the new thread.

LesD

Is there any chance of this thread actually listing availability? If not, can it be closed.

lisawood78

Any ideas on availability anyone, or just some more inane drivel?

redfox

a new thread has been started for the availabilty updates as this one had gone off topic. This will now be closed but you can find the new thread here - please keep that one on topic, thanks