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[QUOTE]Recently, we reported that rumors of an Xbox 360 console with a built-in HD DVD drive was making its away around the internet thanks to an article published in Smarthouse.

The rumor was squashed however, when a Toshiba official denied it completely saying "It’s got nothing to do with us. But we know Microsoft doesn’t want to include the HD DVD drive so as not to limit the user’s experience."

The Toshiba camp is now claiming that the quote was misquoted and the official statement should have said, "Toshiba has no comment to make on this matter. The Xbox 360 is not a Toshiba product."

Although the new quote does not give any new evidence to fuel the rumor it is certainly a backtrack from the first published quote and leaves the door open for the possibility of the console.

More updates as they become available. [/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11617.cfm[/url]
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To me this is good news, as MS is slow to fix the hardware issues with the 360 I have yet to buy in them moving the line to HDVD is a good way to removing the space issues for gaming to stay relevant with high end gaming, but you ask "didn't MS say they were not goign to use Hdvd for gaming?".

MS has said alot of things, and if you think about it they have to with all the bad decisions they have made, but this could be the best decision yet and heres why, if they take these steps to upgrade the line they could well add another 4 years to its life span and make it so they can work long and hard on a new Xbox brand console, I want them to make a solid non easy bake oven fully BWC console that could use Keyboards and mice all for the small price of a 39.99 adapter, if they sold a adapter that would then let you use them they would make some profit off it they wont easily let it be a default setting because theres no gain from it other than looking good, but enough of this moving on to the steps.

First plan out a elite enabled unit thats no more than 80 more than currents elite, because this unit would be debuting in a year it needs a slightly higher price.

Secondly the core unit is pointless and needs to be drooped the HDD needs to be unlocked but at the last drop the core, use the joke of the arcade bundle as filler until you can drop all non HDD enabled units , the reason I am for dropping them is because the 360 needs space HDD caching will help with that, they can then sale the 20GBHDD units or universal sata kits for 40$.

Lastly by mid/late 010 get the whole line to Hdvdat no added cost or at worst 40$ more than they are now, by this time MS could well put the whole line to HDVD, while this will cost tis cheaper than buildign a new unit and at this point and time MS needs to finish the 360 and build a coherent replacement for it,also move to make the external HDVD player cost 50-80 around 20$ more than a new game as to not alienate current users if tis around the price of the game they will welcome it with reserved begrudgings if the frat boy set have them LOL

In Final
MS could do this and do it cheap to no cost to the consumer, while breathing life into the brand to keep it going until a successor is made, I hated the 360 ever since it lost BWC, BWC is soemthign they should use to keep old gamers interested and let newer ones play with the past, its not goign to damage them any worse than them tryign to save a buck doing instantly stupid and short sighted things, I want a solid gaming rig to play with and the only one that I see as solid is nintendo, the rest are to busy gettign away from the core of gaming and as for as I can see the longer they put off a new console the better it should be.

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