Xbox 2 details starting to leak out!
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DVD6C plus Philips, Pioneer, and Sony stake claims to DVD patents. IIRC, you have to license DVD-related patents from all of them if you're manufacturing a device that does DVD playback, hence some of the price for the standalone DVD Remote.Gek54 said:
But to say that "Sony owns the Intellectual Property rights for DVD playback" is just... just... my head asplode.
Gek54 said:
Yep. You have a pay a royalty to the DVD forum, of which Sony is a member. MS didn't want to put the price on each unit, so it simply sold the dongle separately, which funds the payment to the DVD forum. AFAIK, all it does is flip a switch - the xbox has the capability built in.
It did seem odd considering they were competing with PS2 which already had DVD playback, but still.
I'd maybe expect similar about HD-DVD, unless MS are getting a kickback from the IP, keeping the costs down.
element
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I find this comment really funny because it is widely known that Xenon is using PowerPC chips.
There really isn't any 'cold hard facts' in any of those comments.
If they did take it out, it wouldn't have anything to do with MOD stuff, since the base system actutecture is a lot more difficult then the original Xbox that was begging to me modded.
Well there was that announcement from M-Systems. Not really sure what is 'new' about this one. Yes, MS is exploring small factor form storage devices. No news here.
Well for one, Sony doesn't 'own' the IP for DVD Playback, they are part of DVD Consortium with like 8 other companies. MS didn't include DVD playback with the Xbox because they didn't want to pay the DVD Consortium a fee for every Xbox sold. Instead they only had to pay the DVD Consortium for every DVD dongle sold, which ended up saving MS millions.
this is news how?
where else would they announce price and release?
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Tenacious-V
Thinks his PR is better than yours.
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Legal Step
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I like that XBox II and maybe more...maybe XBP. ZOMG M3g4t0n!one1!1!
I'll only buy it if Peter Moore gets a fuckin tattoo for it.
I'll only buy it if Peter Moore gets a fuckin tattoo for it.
You guys can laugh all you want, but http://alexalbrecht.typepad.com is going to be my new source for gaming news from now on.
I think what's more important/interesting is wether it will include BC & HD-DVD.
ALOT of people bought X-BOX's this Christmas 'cos I think the momentum is on MS's side 'cos they have more of an American feel, they have that "better graphics than PS2" selling point to casuals and I really do think the concensus amoung newer console gamers is that MS is going to replace Sony. This isn't my personal belief's...but I overhear lot's of casual gaming conversations at work and out & about and after this Christmas I've noticed the X-BOX "momentum".
The problem is...if MS launches early where does that leave people who JUST bought the first X-BOX? That "momentum" suddenly hits a brick wall! And if it doesn't have BC or a next-generation disc format like HD-DVD then I think they're kinda going into next generation too soon with too little. But who knows?
ALOT of people bought X-BOX's this Christmas 'cos I think the momentum is on MS's side 'cos they have more of an American feel, they have that "better graphics than PS2" selling point to casuals and I really do think the concensus amoung newer console gamers is that MS is going to replace Sony. This isn't my personal belief's...but I overhear lot's of casual gaming conversations at work and out & about and after this Christmas I've noticed the X-BOX "momentum".
The problem is...if MS launches early where does that leave people who JUST bought the first X-BOX? That "momentum" suddenly hits a brick wall! And if it doesn't have BC or a next-generation disc format like HD-DVD then I think they're kinda going into next generation too soon with too little. But who knows?
tahrikmili
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Culex said:
You really think they would even think of using a 10KRPM HDD in an XBOX2? Those things cost significantly higher than 7200RPM..
DopeyFish said:
Yes, I should have been more clear, although I usually write mbit for megabit. Since you seem to think sarcasm helps you today, I'll make this clear
Although this flash based drive is super fast, it still pales against the newer 10k drives.
Average read speed is 45 megabytes/second. Burst rate is 100 megabytes/second
Average read speed for a 10k RPM HDD is 60 (or more) megabytes/second. Burst rate of 300 megabytes/second.
There, happy now? I'm still right.
tahrikmili
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Yusaku said:
Yes, but part of the money they pay, they pay to themselves, unlike XBOX. Of course, that doesn't make the above statement any more rational..
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