Why Microsoft Won't Have Blu-ray on the Xbox

Ian Lamont writes "Ever since Toshiba stopped production of HD DVD players, many Xbox 360 owners have been wondering when Microsoft will offer some sort of Blu-ray option for the Xbox 360. The answer: Probably never. Microsoft's product manager for the Xbox 360 has told Reuters that Microsoft is not in talks with Sony or the Blu-ray Association. Why not? The Industry Standard points to HDi, an obscure Microsoft technology that was part of the HD DVD interactivity layer. HDi may be dead on physical media, but it could potentially be applied to other Microsoft HD-compatible technologies such as Xbox Live Arcade and Windows Media Center, and be part of a long-term play to own a big share of the market for HD content delivered over the Internet."

Re:The reason is simple...

[fructose]

So that's why we can't get iTunes on a PC. Oh, wait...

Slashdot Polls

[ke5aux]

I guess the recent poll was wrong then. "who cares" was not the correct answer.

Microsoft going against the Apple trend?

[jfbilodeau]

Apple would have called it iHD so Microsoft had to call it HDi

Dibs on PODi and TUNEi!

-> I use my TUNEi to fill my PODi :P

My Slashdot Biases Are Colliding

[geoffrobinson]

Sony vs. Microsoft. I guess Slashdot is going to have to go with Sony. We have been triangulated.

And all I can think of...

[Rod Beauvex]

is how Nintendo is just laughing their asses off at all of this.

Re:SUN vs. MicroSoft - Fight (BD-J vs. HDi)

[Anonymous Coward]

I think you might be close, but consider this

http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/java/faq.mspx [microsoft.com]

It may be legally problematic for MS to support BluRay on the 360 because doing so requires them to ship a java implementation.

Re:This sucks

[rikkards]

So once you go 12Gb-ish over your limit, they stop charging extra? Make it work for you and download 13Gb more porn per month.
Yeah but that's like... paying for porn. Who in their right mind does that?