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Discuss: Toshiba throws in the towel
Posted: 10 months ago

dmanit:





what good is the 360 HD player now??
HD DVD is the new beat amx......will this significantly hurt the 360??

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This pisses me off. I got a HD-DVD player addon for my 360 since it was cheaper at the time to just get $200 addon than purchasing a fullblown PS3 for $600. Now that HDDVD is dead, I guess that was money wasted.
What MS NEEDS TO DO NOW is cut the price of the 360 by $200. Why? Because the only reason why Sony was handed their arses to them on a plater was because the PS3 was too expensive. People complained about having to pay an extra $200 more for a ps3 because it came with a builtin (and unwanted) BluRay player. Now that the PS3 is the same price as a 360, consumers can argue, "Well, the PS3 does come with a FREE BluRay player". MS needs to take that advantage away from Sony! it has to be "Shit, the PS3 is still $200 more than a 360 so I'M PAYING FOR A BLURAY PLAYER".

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The fact that it was never built in to the 360 shows they didn't have the same faith in it that sony had in blu-ray. But to the 360's credit its never had to rest on HD DVD as one of its strongpoints because obviously as its not built in thats not why people buy a 360.

I know very few people that but just a HD DVD player or a blu-ray player. Its either PS3 ro XBOX HD DVD add on. Therefore as much as this battle can go on (although this is pretty much the end) it boils down to games and the 360 wins there, so no, I don't think it will hurt the 360.

what they need to do now is come in with a blu-ray add on drive for cheap. Although that would piss a lot of people off. 

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Thats what good marketing can do for you im really frustrated with what has happen but it is what it is go blu ray wee

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 I said it along time ago. Both formats are already obsolete! Look at Xbox Live and Itunes renting and selling HD movies/TV shows over broadband connections. My cable company can send movies to me over digital cable. Soon they'll send them in HD that very same way.

The way I see it this format war isn't about just movies. It's really about the DVD replacement in the PC market. Just imagine how many DVD's are sold as PC software on top of what's sold on DVD for movies and TV shows. Playstation 2, Xbox and Xbox 360 use the DVD format. If I owned the patent on the DVD format and got a royalty for every disc printed; I'd be thrilled by all these sales. 

Before DVD replace CD as the format of choice on PC alot of money was going to the guys who patented the CD format. Don't forget that Playstation and Dreamcast both used the CD format.

So Sony and Toshiba were fighting about who would receive the royalties for every disc printed for the next 10 to 20 years on game consoles, home players (HD-DVD/Blueray movies and TV shows) and most importantly every single retail copy of PC software. Now that services like Netfilx and Gamefly have made going to a rental store passe and "digital distribution" is in our face, Sony and Toshiba had to more to lose if they split the market. That's why Sony risked bankruptcy to lock  up the format war.

Sadly, it wasn't for the advantage games it was just for royalties in PC software.

Or maybe I'm wrong. Let me know if you disagree.

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I thought they were going to try use the drive for P.C's for extra storage. just a month ago Toshiba said they were in it for the long haul.......watever

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You have to wonder if this "format war" would have turned out differently if the Microsoft had put the HD-DVD into the 360 from the start. It is all those blu-ray players in the ps3 that are on the market that was a major factor in tipping the scales to blu-ray.

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Plus, Blu-Ray just sounds cool.

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