Microsoft announced over the weekend that they too will be dropping support for HD
DVD. According to Bloomberg.com, the company will stop making HD DVD players for the Xbox 360 and will drop the price of the addon to
only $49.
Microsoft Corp. plans to stop making HD DVD players and cut the price of existing supplies by more than half
after the leading promoter of the high-definition video format conceded defeat to Sony Corp.'s Blu-ray last week.
``From
tomorrow, we will cut the price to $49,'' said Grace Chou, a Taipei-based spokeswoman for the Redmond, Washington- based company.
Microsoft's Xbox 360 game console includes a standard DVD player, and customers can buy an HD DVD machine to use with the console at
$119.99 through retailers such as Amazon.com.
There is still no official word from Microsoft as to whether or not
we'll be seeing a Blu-ray player for the Xbox 360. Hopefully, we'll hear something soon. In the mean time, Bloomberg's entire article
can be found here.
