Microsoft Says Still No Blu-ray Addon Plans for the Xbox 360

[Raptor]

From teamxbox.com:

What happened to Toshiba? The Japanese corporation announced its exit of the HD DVD business and now, a year and half later, it is completely admitting the success of Blu-ray Disc by announcing plans to manufacture and sell Blu-ray Disc players. Toshiba plans to sell Blu-ray Disc players by the end of the year and will consider the production of Blu-ray Disc recorders.

Peter Moore left the door open once. Microsoft has denied a Blu-ray Disc drive several times. Following Toshiba's announcement, we contacted Microsoft just to find out if they changed their mind. A Microsoft spokesperson provided the following statement:

"As we have stated before, we have no plans to introduce a Blu-ray drive for Xbox 360. We have a long-standing high definition strategy that runs across gaming and premium content, and it's a strategy that continues to pay off for us. Today, we offer the largest library of blockbuster games and offer a growing library of nearly 20,000 movies and TV episodes on Xbox LIVE Video Marketplace (more than 5,000 in HD). In addition, people have access to 12,000 films and TV episodes on Netflix Instant watch. And coming this fall, Xbox LIVE will launch digital movies with instant on 1080p HD streaming so you can experience the best video quality with no disc, no download and no delay. "

Full Story: teamxbox.com

[flumperino]

Of course not, they still have their pride

[willp2003]

no plans for the xbox 360, but maybe the next xbox ........

[BBK]

It would be overpriced anyway. Its a bit of a shame, I could get rid of my PS3 if they brought one out.

[liveseytowers]

I actually like the MS way of downloading HD video. I only watch a film once and would rather pay £4 to download a film on LIVE rather than actually have to go out and buy it for well over £10. Shame the 360 is so noisy.

[Chubbs]

I actually like the MS way of downloading HD video. I only watch a film once and would rather pay £4 to download a film on LIVE rather than actually have to go out and buy it for well over £10. Shame the 360 is so noisy.

You should join lovefilm then, there are plenty of 90 day trial offer codes knocking about, "D67AX7R3F" might still be valid. Don't forget the £15 quidco cash back!

[inspectercoley]

There is no point in them making a blue ray player when you can download films and pay them most of the moneys instead of sony... discs will soon be a thing of the past...

[Chubbs]

There is no point in them making a blue ray player when you can download films and pay them most of the moneys instead of sony... discs will soon be a thing of the past...

Management and storage of films is a pain in the arse - too big, I'd like to pay once and let someone else store the film though - that would work fine for me,

[lithho]

There is no point in them making a blue ray player when you can download films and pay them most of the moneys instead of sony... discs will soon be a thing of the past...

no they wont, your a fool if you belive this. This country has no were near the network to make this happpen. Plus there are still loads of people with out net or who simply like having a disk and a box