Microsoft's HD DVD drive £130 in the UK
At the X06 event in Barcelona the long travelling XBox 360 team (The Tokyo Games Show has just ended) announced that the UK price of their new HD DVD drive will be £130 and will be available in November this year.
They also announced a tie-up with director Peter Jackson who looks to be moving big time into games. He will help with the future of the Halo series of games, this was the game that made the original XBox take-off when Microsoft were so far behind Sony and losing an estimated $1 billion per year on their games side. The game's authors Bungie were bought by Microsoft in 2000 for what is now seen as a bargain $30 million.
An HD DVD drive for £130 could just weigh the balance against Blu Ray, the 'other' format, which has just entered the UK market with Samsung with a player retailing at £999 and available next month.
Unfortunately playing DVDs through the Xbox 360 isn't a great experience with the fan noise but if the new drive doesn't use the CPU too much maybe fan noise won't be a problem.
They also announced a tie-up with director Peter Jackson who looks to be moving big time into games. He will help with the future of the Halo series of games, this was the game that made the original XBox take-off when Microsoft were so far behind Sony and losing an estimated $1 billion per year on their games side. The game's authors Bungie were bought by Microsoft in 2000 for what is now seen as a bargain $30 million.
An HD DVD drive for £130 could just weigh the balance against Blu Ray, the 'other' format, which has just entered the UK market with Samsung with a player retailing at £999 and available next month.
Unfortunately playing DVDs through the Xbox 360 isn't a great experience with the fan noise but if the new drive doesn't use the CPU too much maybe fan noise won't be a problem.
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