Guys,
I received confirmation from a game shop owner that an external Blu-ray player will be available very soon.
Anybody wanna get it?
The price is ranged at RM600-700.
Has anyone any information on such a fact?

This post has been edited by -= Virgil =-: May 5 2008, 11:11 AM

Da source:

http://udn.com/NEWS/FINANCE/FIN1/4323974.shtml


Da translation:

http://kotaku.com/386372/another-manufactu...oming-this-year






Da rumours!

i will buy the external blu-ray player for my 360 elite ( falcon ) for sure...worth it....rather then external hd dvd player...since im planning to get a LCD tv by October 2008 for my birthday...Sony Bravia yeaaah !

This post has been edited by GamersFamilia: May 2 2008, 08:48 PM

wow, really?

what makes you say that?

Is it because Toshiba announced they will stop development of the HD-DVD format 3 months ago?




Thank you, Captain Obvious.

well today i went to GH...there is a Movie Shop nearby the kopitiam showing a blu-ray demo...wow very nice...so since there is rumor said external blu-ray player for 360..so just wait liew...

spiderman demo in blue-ray...awesome...so sharp, smooth...mcm terkeluar jer spiderman tu hahah...is there any porn blu-ray movie?

Confirm blu-ray player? Then I might juz get one too..And to convince my dad dat the 360 wont spoil his precious Bravia..

well i dont think 360 will spoil ur dad bravia....

hope so...hope there is blu-ray player for the 360 ( external )

Of coz wont la..Juz dat he's too protective of it..cant do anything to convince him..

Maybe i should start to set up a bulk order for it
Seems like there is a lot of demand.

erkk but i heard that this BD.... build in inside... not just normal add on same as previous HDDVD add on...

Ya.. u heard it ...... he heard it.... they heard it.... so time will proof who heard from the right one.....

My sources told me that it is an external and used to watch blu-ray movies.

i just hope the used the player to launch games like metal gear. hahaha

yeah yeah yeah... sony bravia my man....

i also to plan to upgrade the 32" in this case...

hopefully.. xbox strat to do games in blueray

Confirmed. An ASUS OEM subsidary won the job.

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20080502PB200.html

http://www.hardwarezone.com/news/view.php?id=10592&cid=5

break thou heart it maybe..shall thee join the dark side soon.

I thought I heard Microsoft "absolutely will not release a Blu-Ray" add-on?

If they do, it will be Holiday 2008 when I will get it.

coming to the dark side eh?

anyone with HD-DVD add-on knocking ur heads yet?

This post has been edited by almattitude_v1: May 8 2008, 08:26 PM

Dark side is Blu-Ray ? Its just a format. Its not like I'm going to get a Pl*ySt*t**n 3.


Pegatron Technologies is being related to Microsoft. Pegatron is associated with Blu-Ray.

News about 'Xbox 360 Blu-Ray' is going around. And some are confused...

'Xbox 360 Blu-Ray' or 'Xbox 360 Blu-Ray Add-on' ? The former would not make sense. Microsoft does not like changing the internal parts of Xbox 360. Its usually just minor changes.

Microsoft will be releasing a new Xbox 360 version late 2008/early 2009, codenamed Jasper.

That said, an Add-on would make more sense as current Xbox 360 users can opt whether or not to buy it.

blu-ray is so 2007

Pensonic has come up with a new format that would kill all other formats out there

Blu-ray is so 2007

Don't take ya pant off yet ... Microsoft denies the add on. At least wait for confirmation from Microsoft before pre-ordering (or anything involving money).

Cheers!

read here
http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge...224707720080313

xbox360 does not need a blu ray,ms should reduce the price of hard drive and make more people happy to buy their harddrive.

I personally wouldn't mind buying a Blu-Ray drive,considering how expensive the players are these days.

Because I've always wanted to watch HD movies in the living room,it's just so cool

This post has been edited by trogdor1oh1: Jan 30 2009, 04:29 PM

if ms releases a bd drive sure xpensive 1.

I still don't understand why Microsoft looks at Blu-Ray disc format as 'only a optical movie format' but not 'game disc format'. Blu-Ray is the future of optical discs and we all know that.

I know Xbox 3 will have a Blu-Ray built in. If not, Microsoft has to come up with their own disc format.

What happened to that confirmation now ? Already nearly 9 months..

This post has been edited by defaultname365: Jan 30 2009, 07:49 PM

Wow!
haha, nice one

Anyway,

Check This Link

"It's not a feature we get a ton of requests for," Bach told Tech Flash. "When you ask people the list of things they want to see us spending time creating in Xbox, Blu-ray is way, way down on the list.

First list.. free gold member?

This post has been edited by Hisyam91: Jan 30 2009, 08:23 PM

bluray movies / games is gonna be costly

better worry about what you pray for

i think MS is gonna go along the digital distribution way..
at least until some company can come up with other form of optical storage besides blu-ray (holographic disc maybe? up to 3.9TB per disc?)...

This post has been edited by technophile: Jan 31 2009, 02:23 AM

Wow... just the thought of Free Gold Membership...

Xbox 360 n Blu-Ray = forget it. I think its time to move on... Microsoft won't give Blu-Ray to 360 owners.

Xbox 3 = most likely. Better be. Not just for 'movie format' but a 'game format' as well. Game devs cannot cramp everything into multiple DVDs..



That means Xbox 3 'might' just have Blu-Ray.



This post has been edited by defaultname365: Jan 31 2009, 10:47 AM

but if every developer want to make cun2 size for blue ray , then we gona se alot of crap cutscene ,

p/s cant imagine games that have size 3.7TB , @___@ long gameplay

This post has been edited by Date Masamune: Jan 31 2009, 10:48 AM

nah.. not gameplay, just more HD content for your eyes to bleed for.
ps3's games are on blu-ray (talking about their exclusives), still i dun see 40 hour FPS yet in a single player mode, unless you really stretch it that far.
or 100 hour action adventure game.

my point being is, huge space doesn't mean the game will be long. just that those space could be optimized for other content (sound, movie, textures, etc)

This post has been edited by technophile: Feb 1 2009, 01:23 AM

ic ic , coz MGS4 have lot of cutscene....................cant imagine playing FPS with 100hours gameplay , gila ka?? ,............well hopefully they make blue-ray for 360 , after all , its the "future"

i won't count on it.
as far as i know, MS will try to distance themselves from Sony (blu-ray board is headed by Sony, therefore need to pay royalty to Sony if they use it).
so the next best thing, support a totally new HD format.

i see , well when i think about it , who wanna pay for and add-on blueray player which will cost alot of $$$$$$

p/s new HD format is Red Ray?? with one sided 10TB haha

DVD media for gaming has really reached it's limit... Sometimes, due to lack of storage, game developers tends to cut down on cut scenes or voice acting just to try and fit the whole data into a single DVD. Tales Of Vesperia is 1 example where the game has not many cutscenes and has only 50% voice acting throughout the game..