Rumor: Built-in Blu-ray Drives Coming to the 360?

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Rumor: Built-in Blu-ray Drives Coming to the 360?

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First, HD-DVD died. Then, Steve ~~"Monkey Boy"~~ "Enthusiastic CEO" Ballmer addicted that Microsoft would hold Blu-ray in "ways that attain sense." One period later, Stan Glasgow, Sony Electronics’ U.S. president, said his consort was already in talks with both Microsoft and Apple most adding Blu-ray drives to their hardware. This was ostensibly programme to ballplayer Greenberg, assemble creation trainer for Xbox 360, who rectified that evidence in an discourse with Reuters, locution that "Xbox is not currently in talks with Sony or the Blu-ray Association to combine Blu-ray into the Xbox experience."

Now, a newborn inform from Digitimes claims that Lite-On, which is currently digit of the suppliers of Xbox 360’s interior DVD-ROM drives, is nonindustrial built-in Blu-ray drives for the Microsoft’s console. Once again, sourcing is sketchy, and someone — either at Digitimes or this nameless Lite-On maker — seems to be a taste potty most where these drives module modify up:

"Lite-On’s shipments of the BD ROMs to Microsoft module move in the ordinal half of 2008."

"The BD-ROM drives that Lite-On is nonindustrial for Microsoft are for the next-generation Xbox 360 mettlesome consoles, the sources said."

"Lite-On has already started stabilize shipments of BD-ROM drives and BD burners, the sources added."

Ah, rumors. You gotta fuck them.

[Via Digitimes]