Slutty MS Shows Off Her Xbox’s HD-DVD
Hollywood Newsroom is now Buzz Newsroom! Visit and bookmark our new site. Buzz is bigger and better, including sports, world news, gadgets and the entertainment news that you're used to. Same staff, just more stuff! Why Fark, Drudge and Huffington when you can Buzz!?Always the pervs, Redmond’s Microsoft flashed the world with the new HD-DVD drive for the Xbox, a gaming platform that gets us about as excited as Windows 98. Damn it, tho, MS sucks and we know it, but now that Bill Gates is saving the world, it is hard to bash the guy. Ok, on with the news…
Kevin Collins, senior program manager at Microsoft, demonstrated the HD DVD drive, which he said is scheduled to hit store shelves for the upcoming holiday shopping season, to attendees of the DVD Forum here.
The device–about the size of a hardback book–played “The Phantom of the Opera” as Collins pulled up a menu bar to display a few of its navigation and interactive features that can be called up on screen while a movie is playing. Collins said Microsoft’s HD DVD drive will be among the least expensive of the HD DVD players, but he declined to disclose the drive’s retail price.
“All the audio and video processing is done inside the Xbox,” said Collins, who noted that research has shown that a majority of Xbox owners already own high-definition displays. An Xbox drive provides them with all the other equipment they need to watch HD DVD movies, he said.
“This gives consumers choice and keeps their cost down,” Collins said
Microsoft has chosen to back the HD DVD format over Blu-ray. Both technologies are vying to replace the DVD format and are represented by consortiums that include electronics makers and Hollywood studios.
Source: Cnet