Rumor: Lite-On bringing Blu-ray drives to 360

[Shrygue]

via Joystiq


We're beginning to get a little dizzy amidst all this tête-à-tête action between Microsoft and Sony regarding the Blu-ray format. Sony says Microsoft's building a Blu-ray drive, Microsoft says it's not. MS CEO Steve Ballmer says the company's thinking about it, then another MS exec says disc technology's on its way out. Now, Digitimes is reporting that manufacturer Lite-On IT is amidst development of Blu-ray drives for the Xbox 360, to be included in future iterations of the 360 hardware.

According to Digitimes' sources, the BD-ROM drives are due to ship out to Microsoft in the second half of this year. Lite-On has previously developed internal DVD-ROM drives for the Xbox 360, leading us to believe that Microsoft may plan to include internal BD-ROM drives in future 360 iterations (such as those including the Jasper, Opus and Valhalla chipsets). No need to fear, however: Such an inclusion would likely be solely for Blu-ray disc playback, and not for Xbox 360 games pressed on BD-ROMS (we hope).

[JKKDARK]

it will not happen. Microsoft is not stupid.

[Elven6]

Why would it be internal? When they had a perfectly good HD DVD drive they never made it internal so why would they with a brand new drive for a different format?

[Shadowblind]

It won't happen. Seems some blu-y fanboys with 360s just can't face facts.