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Microsoft Continues to Pimp HD DVD Player

kotaku.com — HD DVD is dead. Soon after the Toshiba announcement, Xbox Japan said the death of HD DVD is something it "will examine from now." By "examining," Microsoft must mean continuing to push its HD DVD player! Microsoft's out-dated peripheral is still being pimped on Xbox Live!

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  • pussieLicker, on 02/20/2008, -23/+7I like to think gamers are not stupid enough to buy one at this point, even if it was $19 i'd tell Mic-so to shove it up their ass and go ass2mouth
    • sockpuppets, on 02/20/2008, -0/+17Your parents must be so proud, pussieLicker.
  • theaceoffire, on 02/20/2008, -8/+13They are trying to get rid of em. Don't want another landfill on their hands if they can avoid it.
    • kalkin, on 02/20/2008, -9/+7yeah at the customers expense. way to go microsoft!
      • charlescheese, on 02/20/2008, -8/+8Microsoft screwing over their customers? You don't say, they've NEVER done that before. /sarcasm
  • NaziHatinChimp, on 02/20/2008, -4/+17They can bury them in the desert next to the ET Atari cartridges.
    • thenativeraver, on 02/20/2008, -0/+2I still have my copy.
      Long live the 2600!
  • DMeisterJ, on 02/20/2008, -7/+2Ten bucks and I'd buy it.
    • charlescheese, on 02/20/2008, -3/+3I think that's what I paid for my 32x. It was not worth it. At least that thing played games, but HD DVD drive is a complete waste of any amount of money at this point. You couldn't pay me to have an extra useless peripheral sitting in my entertainment center wasting good space.
  • bobthegreat1224, on 02/20/2008, -6/+0Hopefully this means they're clearing inventory to make room for a BD addon.
    • B1663r, on 02/20/2008, -2/+4Actually, I bet they are just going to let the physical formats die at this point. My guess is they are looking at their download numbers on live and they are thinking... "Meh, why bother?". Lol
  • yeshuu, on 02/20/2008, -11/+2for once microsoft had a format die on them. sonys had too much bad luck with the minidisk and betamax and watnot.
    • truspector, on 02/20/2008, -0/+5Microsoft, you mean Toshiba right?
  • Spoonicus, on 02/20/2008, -8/+1so let me get this straight.. the PS3 is increasing sales and now microsoft is going to be forced into the position of
    having to buy blueray players from the competition.. sucks to be you bill.
    • ahatter, on 02/20/2008, -0/+5im sure 'bill' isnt losing any sleep over it.
    • B1663r, on 02/20/2008, -2/+6Um, Sony licenses the codecs that play those BD disks from Microsoft, so in spite of your juvenile fantasy, Microsoft makes money no matter who wins....

      Toshiba on the other hand... That EVIL Toshiba, yeah! Sony sure showed them!
  • truspector, on 02/20/2008, -2/+6I just picked one up at lunch today. For $129 you really can't ask for more, unless you wanted a player for a disc format that hadn't already failed. :p
    • otatop, on 02/20/2008, -2/+1You could have bought an HD A30 for that price.
      • truspector, on 02/20/2008, -0/+7Sarcasm isn't your strong suit is it?
  • s0u1man, on 02/20/2008, -1/+12C'mon, it's been two days since Toshiba announced they were discontinuing HD DVD. Buried for being petty.
  • whatthefu, on 02/20/2008, -5/+3I like my 360 and all but if Blu-ray playing capability doesn't come sooner than later I am going to be pretty annoyed.
    • KraftDinner101, on 02/20/2008, -1/+1OOOOOOO everyone watch out, whatthefu is getting annoyed.
  • digjam, on 02/20/2008, -1/+1MS is just trying to sell off the last remaining pieces in their warehouse!
  • chris9902, on 02/20/2008, -1/+1The advert appeared the same day as HD-DVD was canned.

    More ***** filler content from Kotaku.
  • Wallstreet, on 02/20/2008, -0/+1Buried for the description being the whole article.
  • Shiftyeyedgoat, on 02/20/2008, -0/+1Hang on, couldn't these things be mostly re-housed/re-purposed into Blu-ray drives?

    Obviously there'd be some garbage components, but you could keep the main outer housing, the diodes themselves, and just change out some of the electronics.

    It's better than an enormous landfill of a useless and discontinued technology.
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