Friday, Oct 19th 2007 by James Allan Brady


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Alright, so not too long ago I reported on a potential new SKU, the Xbox 360 Ultimate which was supposedly going to be the Elite, but with an integrated HD-DVD drive. That, so far hasn’t happened, but this new announcement could give way to just that.

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Or, they could just bundle the current separate HD-DVD drive with an Xbox 360 Elite since they probably have a ton of HD-DVD drives just sitting around. Although the drives have been selling like crazy thanks to all the rebates, price cuts, and other deals.

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Other additions that came with this rumor, that sound extremely outrageous are a larger hard drive (more than 120GB? I haven’t even used the 20 that came with mine), dual HDTV tuners, an MP3 player docking port (where? The dual orientation capabilities of the 360 would prevent this no?), and a quieter system (this one might actually happen). No idea how much that bundle would cost, but it would definitely bump HD-DVD sales in the same cheatorous way that Sony did with Blu-Ray, and it would make for an Xbox that’s more suitable for IPTV or DVR functionality, which we could theoretically see any day now.

Rumor: Xbox 360 Upgrade Coming With Bundled HD DVD and Larger Hard Drive [via Gizmodo]

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  1.  Denis Bergeron   View all comments by Denis Bergeron  +1  Add karma Subtract karma Quote

    Why in the world I will want to buy it if the DVD is outside of the BOX ?
    You get your feet in the usb cable in the power cable I have enough cable behind my tv to add four other cable to read HD-DVD. I have a ps3 and only need a power cabl and ONE cable to my tv to read BD. Not FOUR !

  2.  jafet   View all comments by jafet  -2  Add karma Subtract karma Quote

    DVD HD-DVD the best Now for freee is going crazy if this hapennn I just saw transformer and ist the best


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