Headlines - No Blu-ray as Microsoft opts for Xbox 360 digital distribution

[HEXUS]

Microsoft put the rumour of an Xbox 360 Blu-ray drive well and truly to bed as it confirms its focus on digital distribution.

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[Hicks12]

noticed a mistake in the article

digital distribution and that it has "no interest' in brining Blu-ray functionality to the Xbox 360.

Good article, i wonder if this will happen in endgland soon. If it does i can see all current broadband providers having a fit because of all the downloading, worse than bbci player because it will be HD

[lost eden]

'Digital distribution' is one of those vague buzzword terms I don't like - last time I checked, Blue-ray was digital too!

[Athanasios2104]

Lol ?

[j.o.s.h.1408]

haha. what will happen to those people who have capped download limits with there broadband providers or have slow connections?

last i looked a 1080p video is over 20gb. at X264/.MKV format its around 9GB compressed. still very big and the 360 as far as i know DOESNT support x264 or .MKV

the world is not quit ready for digital content unless its none HD

[Jordan88]

Yes for us virgin media customers digital distribution isn't good especially as they have now speed capped between 10am and 3pm.

[Unique]

this is dissapointing, but then after spending £250 on an xbox and £100 on the hd-drive as the cheapest hd-dvd entry point, perhaps it's better to spend £200 on a ps3 (when prices come down) than £100 on a bluray add on to the xbox, but then blu ray pc drives are nearing the £60 mark so that might be a better way of doing it, although unfortunately my dell has no capacity for adding another graphics card with hdmi/hdcp for easy/legit playback

i'm not interested in paying money for a digital copy, and use up a ton of bandwidth to download a movie. i'd rather pay £10 and have a copy i can keep for years and take with me to play where i want. presumably there are plenty of potentially willing customers if that's what MS are aiming for

[beanbandit]

Yes for us virgin media customers digital distribution isn't good especially as they have now speed capped between 10am and 3pm.

Change ISP

[Jordan88]

Change ISP

Haha i know, don't think ADSL is to good in my area though.

[spazman]

Digital distribution isnt going to work untill you have the same sort of freedoms you have by owning it on disk. Either that or they let you download movies for an amount that dosnt come close to extortion, you can buy loads of old back catolouge films on dvd for less than £5. Who the hell is going to pay that to download and watch it once?

Until the major issue of DRM is addressed, any sort of digital distribution service is going to fail.

My sister used to regularly buy music from the itunes store, i always told her she was mental. She never thought 'oh i can only use this (legally) on my ipod' because it was never an issue she only had an ipod. It wasnt untill she wanted that music on her phone and her new desktop that she realised why I hated itunes and its DRM so much.
Her CD collection is growing again.