Retail sources price Xbox 360 HD-DVD at £199

NewsPosted 08/09/2006 - 5:23pm GMT+1

Retail sources have revealed that the Xbox 360 HD-DVD add-on will be released in November at £199.

GamesIndustry.biz has learned from sources within the retail industry that the upcoming HD-DVD add-on for the Xbox 360 will go on sale in November, carrying a £199 price tag.

The add-on will come bundled with two HD-DVD movies and will also be offered at a reduced price as part of a Premium Xbox 360 bundle. Packaged together with an Xbox 360 console, the sources suggest that consumers will be paying anything from £375 to £400.

The bundle would appear to be an attractive option, offering around a £100 saving compared to buying the drive separately - it's the current Xbox 360 owners who appear to get the short straw.

Official information regarding the HD-DVD drive is expected to be announced at Microsoft's X06 event at the end of the month.

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mikestc@ mike_mgoblue

rl is wrong in saying dvi will not display true hd.dvi is the same as hdmi but only carrys a video signal and no audio

Posted 20:28 on 09 October 2006

shakerman @ mike_mgoblue

i have a dvi adapter which i plug my 360 rgb leads into and set the adapter to 1080i/720p/480p then plug it into the tv

Posted 01:38 on 06 October 2006

jtorry

The Xbox 360 HD DVD will output in HD resolutions over component and VGA (1080p films only over VGA), there is no DVI out for the Xbox 360 at this time.

Posted 17:11 on 05 October 2006

shakerman @ mike_mgoblue

so my tv is hd ready but only has a dvi connection so is it not displaying true hd from my 360

Posted 16:50 on 05 October 2006

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Ben Dover@ mike_mgoblue

Yup, we sure did. And Rl is right, the porn industry plays a MASSIVE part in tech wars likethis.. remember betamax vs VHS?? The only other market big enough to challenge porn is the gaming one.. and they favour HD.. we'll see!!

Posted 14:48 on 05 October 2006

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RL@ mike_mgoblue

HDMI is just digital scart, DVI is a connection but wont display true HD.
The more important fact is that the Porn Industry had sided with Blu-Ray and they are normally the deciding factor

Posted 10:51 on 01 October 2006

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Teph@ mike_mgoblue

I wanted to also add that: Field, your verbage is also incorrect. Saying the other \\\'connectors\\\' cannot \\\'understand\\\' the signal is abit of a stretch. It cannot understand the ICT sent by the HD players, but as cakey said, those tokens aren\\\'t getting enabled any time soon.

In any case, it is quite common knowledge that HD formats (Movies or otherwise) does not require a digital signal. This is best compared with computer connectors and signals. DVI is digital and VGA is analog, but you can still achieve high resolutions with either. It is the same with consoles and movies, save the DRM\\\'d ICT that is to eventually be applied by both HD consortiums (HD-DVD and Blu-ray). But to say the other signals and connectors \\\'cannot understand HD content\\\' is simply not true.

Posted 17:07 on 19 September 2006

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cakey@ mike_mgoblue

Field - your comment that HD playback isn't possible withoutt HDMI is incorrect. It would have been correct if the movie companies had stuck to what the originally planned. but, due to a large amout of HD tv's already in the market witout HDMI and some pushing from the likes of Microsoft and Sony - they have delayed the implementation of the protection on Movies until 2011 at the EARLIEST. this means that all blu-ray and HD-DVD movies will play back in hi-def through HD Component (that the X360 and basic PS3 has.

Hope that helps.

Posted 09:29 on 19 September 2006

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Field@ mike_mgoblue

People always seem to overlook the fact that move companies have developed the HDMI port for a reason. They have built a signal into movies (not games) which means you can only reach true HD when using a HDMI port. An HDMI port can understand the signal to reach HD, which is about 4 times the normal tv resolution. Other ports like Composite, S-Video, Component, SCART, VGA work with games in HD but don't understand the signals from movies, so they play the movies at about half HD, that about twice normal tv resolution!

So if you using a Xbox 360, basic Playstation 3 or an early HD TV with no HDMI... No HD movies for you! I think companies are keeping a bit quite over this because it's a bit hard to understand for the normal person.

So why are they they doing this? It's because movies are very hard to copy over a HDMI port, so now people will not be able to copy their movies in full HD.

Annoying, and cheeky i know!!

Posted 14:06 on 14 September 2006

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ocv@ mike_mgoblue

I believe Microsoft should releases HD-DVD add-on at $150 or 175 to attracts more customer to the XBOX 360 [likes Toshiba]

Posted 22:06 on 10 September 2006

mike_mgoblue

Microsoft needs to make sure that the HD-DVD attachment is priced right. They need to make sure that the Xbox 360 Premium and the HD-DVD costs $500 or less. The attachment for current Xbox 360 shouldn't cost more than $199.

A low price is better than a package deal. The success of all the movie rental places prove that most people don't care about owning movies. People want lower prices.

Posted 21:12 on 10 September 2006