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Microsoft Revises Its Opinion of Blu-ray | |
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| Time: 00:09 EST/05:09 GMT | News Source: Bink.nu | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Rumors of Microsoft supporting the Blu-ray format have started to pick up again, especially since the announcement earlier this month that Warner Brothers was backing the fledging optical disc format over HD-DVD for home video. But it comes as a small surprise to read in a recent 1UP.com interview with Jeff Bell, Corporate Vice President of Global Marketing for Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business that Microsoft has been "talking to Blu-ray all along." While that statement sounds a tad revisionist, more surprising is that Bell calls the company's relationship with rival Sony a "coopetition," given the companies' heated rivalry in the video game arena. Of course, this statement is true, because Sony relies on Microsoft's operating systems for various devices, including computers. But does it mean that a Blu-ray drive (Sony technology) could be on its way to the Xbox 360? | ||
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| #1 By 92283 (64.180.196.172) at 1/29/2008 3:35:39 PM |
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"BD representatives on hand proclaimed that early adopters "knew what they were getting into" when they purchased a player that lacked advanced functionality such as Bonus View and BD Live."
Early adopters get screwed. Any guarantee middle adopters won't get scrwed too? http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/14/blu-ray-early-adopters-knew-what-they-were-getting-into-appar/ |
| #2 By 28801 (71.58.231.46) at 1/29/2008 5:56:35 PM |
| If you can't beat em... |
| #3 By 28692 (216.185.210.251) at 1/29/2008 7:38:28 PM |
| I wouldn't declare Blu-Ray the winner of HD optical disk format war. Just like DVD-Audio vs. SACD, both Blu-Ray and HD DVD are losers. HD DVD just lost first. |
| #4 By 1896 (216.189.183.117) at 1/30/2008 6:16:23 AM |
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#3: I tend to agree with you on this matter; I am what marketing people label as "early adopter" but in spite of this I have no interest in HD DVD and less than ever in BluRay.
If I remember correctly BluRay still enforce the "Region" DRM scheme, something that HD DVD did not. |
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