Microsoft’s Xbox Blu-ray Support?
“It should be consumer choice; and if that’s the way they vote, that’s something we’ll have to consider,” Albert Penello, group marketing manager for Xbox hardware said when asked whether Microsoft would support a Blu-ray DVD accessory in the event that HD-DVD failed.
The Xbox 360 supports a plug-in HD-DVD accessory that is bought separately, while Sony, hoping to give its next-generation video format a leg up, built a Blu-ray player into its PlayStation 3 machine. - Reuters
MS can just make a blu-ray external drive for the Xbox 360, but I don’t think they care about the format war just the console wars, which they are winning.
Warner’s Warner Bros. had been supporting both formats, but announced Friday that it would release exclusively in Blu-ray starting in June. BLu-ray is NOW in the lead, which makes me believe MS will start supporting it. Luckily I only bought 2 HD-DVD discs!