Re: EXPECT Blu-ray INSIDE the XBOX 360... just in time for the HOLIDAYS.

R U SERIOUS. ARE WE REALLY DISCUSSING THIS!

[Post edited by bladerunner1 on May 2, 2008]

I thought I was a nerd when I installed my HD DVD rom drive into my XBOX. But then again I also tried converting my BD ROM drive into my USB HD DVD case. And blew up the BD drive incidently. )

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R U SERIOUS. ARE WE REALLY DISCUSSING THIS!

someone call my name :

God Reaggie...you ARE a nerd.

R U...

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Xbox 360 physically cannot decode 40 mbit/s H.264 stream as required by Blu-Ray specification.

Oh bull crap:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_high_definition_optical_disc_formats#Capacity.2Fcodecs

This Deadmeat character acts like he knows what he's talking about, but anything he says talk with a HUGE grain of salt. In fact, assume the opposite is true.

[Post edited by Skyhawk on May 2, 2008]

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Sony owns the patents to the core technologies of what is Blu-Ray today. If Sony wanted to they could quit licensing the UDO and DVR-Blu technologies and the BDA would be without Blu-Ray, so in essence, YES...Sony does in fact hold the controlling factors of Blu-Ray.

That's silly. I could say the company licensing the Blue Laser technology has the big control over the BDA! (And it isn't Sony!) Those disks are useless if you can't play them.

Neither does Sony own the patents to 100 other technologies that are necessary to make what Blu-ray is today, including codecs and physical technology used to actually read and process those lil' pits on a Blu-ray disk. I know your hate for Blu-ray and anything Sony is involved in makes you throw logic out the window, but silly is just... silly. The Blu-ray physical format itself has patents shared between three companies actually - I'm sure you know who the other 2 are.

Anyway, Plasmon is the patent holder to UDO, and Sony's competing ol'PDD has nothing to do with Blu-ray technology anyhoot.

[Post edited by Skyhawk on May 2, 2008]

And then there was silence.........[cricket].......................[cricket]...............[cricket].
Ladies and Gentlemen, Skyhawk, has left the building.

Nice work Skyhawk, way to lay the smack down.

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Oh bull crap:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_high_definition_optical_disc_formats#Capacity.2Fcodecs

This Deadmeat character acts like he knows what he's talking about, but anything he says talk with a HUGE grain of salt. In fact, assume the opposite is true.

Your link says 40 mbits/s max video stream for Blu-Ray. Thank you for verifying what I have been telling you.

[Post edited by Deadmeat on May 2, 2008]

Deadmeat, no offence but the Xbox 360 is a pretty advanced piece of equipment - almost half advanced as a PS3! *kidding you Xbox owners*

It's got a GPU that accelerates many of the functions required for AVC decoding, and has a pretty fast processor. If it can handle 30Mps H.264 on HD DVD, I'm sure it can handle 40Mbps without dropping frames. It's not that bad of a console. We bought one for our son, and I must admit it's pretty slick and probably more capable than the "facts" you make up. It's not as crappy as you believe.

Besides, even if the Xbox 360 had a Celeron processor and was much less powerful than the Wii, the Blu-ray add-on could easily add a decoding chip and deliver the decoded stream to the console without any problems. But they don't have to do that. The XBox 360 is an OK console.

[Post edited by Skyhawk on May 2, 2008]