Original URL: http://www.reghardware.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
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 (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/stuff/20071022/ttc-toshiba-says-no-to-new-xbox-360-hd-d-6017cbb.html) 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 (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/10/22/toshiba_xbox_hddvd/).
"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."