xbox 360 HD-DVD Device

Hi everyone!

This is the first entry in my blog, so first of all I want to thank you for visiting it :)

This is also the first time I blog, so I hope I do it fine!

And this first `new` is about the extern HD-DVD player that Microsoft is releasing later this year. Yesterday, they told us a little bit more about it, but they still don't want to say anything neither about the price, nor about a release date, anyway they're announcing it shortly, and we expect it to be shipping before christmas.

We just was told that it was going to be cheaper than the HD-DVD players are in the US market (around 500 US$), because "All the audio and video processing is done inside the Xbox".

One more important thing about the HD-DVD disks is that no game will be made in that format. Which means we'll only need to buy a player if we want to enjoy the movies in High Definition. But... why? I heard from one guy in Microsoft, that the games won't have better graphics if you burn them in bigger disks, since that depends on the system, not on you save it. And a DVD9 (double layer) disk is enough for anygame.

This is the opposite side that Sony took for their Play Station 3, which will have a built-in Blu Ray player. And the games will be in that format.

Those of you who have a xbox 360, will you buy a HD-DVD player?

Me, personnaly (I own a xbox 360) won't by now, since I don't have a HDTV beside my computer monitor. So I'm going to wait for the market to accept either the HD-DVD or the BluRay format for me to choose any of them. Moreover, I need to wait for it to be cheaper :)

That's all by now, I'll keep you all blogged.