2008 Ces

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Well I'm sorry that Bill didn't announce the integrated HD DVD player into the xbox... maybe a Blu-Ray compatible X360 is on the way thanks to Warner Bros! lol.. but Bill did make some other announcements at this years CES.

lol @ picture

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Playing up high definition displays and connected entertainment, Gates spoke of wide-ranging changes to the industry, before bringing on Microsoft president of entertainment devices Robbie Bach to make a few Xbox 360-related announcements.
"ABC and Disney will be bringing their TV shows to Xbox Live this month. Top rated shows like Lost, Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, and others," said Bach, who also noted that MGM will be added to the growing list of movie studios supporting the service.

I don't xbox, but if I did, it would give me another option from buying them from iTunes, which I guess is okay. And I have on Demand, soooooo I don't need to download movies from XBL, but thats cool too I guess. Some other happenings at this years CES was some GHIII action!!

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Later on in the show, before a Guitar Hero III duel between Gates and Bach, the latter brought on Guitar Hero champion Kelly Lyon to play Welcome to the Jungle in his place. This was followed by Gates countering with his own ringer, Slash himself, who played his own lick with a real guitar to end the conference.

I can see Bill on expert.

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[CoffeeShark]

It was pretty underwhelming.

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Originally Posted by CoffeeShark

It was pretty underwhelming.

Yeah I agree. Soo much for Bills big announcement

[CoffeeShark]

I figured they go into more about the xbox 360 being the media center of the home universe, but it's nothing revolutionary, more like evolutionary.

[chode_messiah]

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Originally Posted by CoffeeShark

It was pretty underwhelming.

bill gates is a turd.

[DominiKing]

That was lame, they let us down just like SONY did announcing their announcement. I thought it was going to be something cool.

[CoffeeShark]

they let you down because you expected something monumental.

[Kage]

So wait, the xbox is just becoming more like a computer. Except its just a console. WTF

[CoffeeShark]

In an interview with ZDNet just prior to his CES speech, Gates said the following about the demise of HD-DVD:

Q: Does Warner's move to support Blu-ray exclusively mean that HD DVD is dead? If so, what does it mean for Microsoft? Obviously, you've been a big supporter of HD DVD.

A: Gates: The last studio announcement was Paramount going exclusively to HD DVD, so there's been some back-and-forth. It's kind of a classic format war. You have to think of what we are doing with our HD-interactive software as being actually neutral to any of these platforms.

The third platform, which I don't think anybody would dispute will win in the long run, is directly downloading over the Internet. That's the way Mediaroom TV works. That's the way Xbox Live works.

We've got more content with Disney and MGM coming onto that. It's been very, very successful. The convenience of not using media--we've seen that in music. iPod, Zune, your phone--that's how you are going to carry your music.

Your collection, it's up in the cloud. Any new device you get, it's there. That will happen for video too. The actual physical-format battle here isn't really, in some sense, that important. But getting the movies so you can access it through any broadband device--that's the future.

Q: Would you do a Blu-ray add-on for Xbox?
Gates: Third parties can do peripherals for Xbox. Obviously, all of the different optical-drive technologies are supported in Windows. At the core, we are about software and making sure the HD activities get to critical mass.

[VincentVega]

Bill would make an epic politician