Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/24/toshiba_denies_xbox_plan/
Toshiba: integrated HD DVD would 'limit' Xbox experience
Giant denies it's working on a console
Posted in Hardware, 24th October 2007 11:47 GMT
Microsoft will not build an HD DVD drive into a future Xbox 360 because it doesn't want to "limit the user's experience", an insider at fellow HD DVD backer Toshiba has said.
Not exactly a ringing endorsement of the next-generation optical disc format, you might think, but there you have it it: buy HD DVD, limit your experience.
The comment comes from an unnamed Toshiba spokesperson by way of [1] Yahoo! News. The commentator also dismissed recent claims that Toshiba is working on machine - possibly even an HD TV - with built-in Xbox 360 functionality [2].
"It’s got nothing to do with us," the spokesperson said. "But we know Microsoft doesn’t want to include the HD DVD drive so as not to limit the user’s experience."