Xbox 360 Elite announced

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=6671

My question is "Why no integrated hddvd?"

should i wait longer for the 65nm and hope there is a hd drive put in later this year?

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Palebrew wrote:

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=6671

My question is "Why no integrated hddvd?"

should i wait longer for the 65nm and hope there is a hd drive put in later this year?

Because they promised the consumer that they would never integrate an HD into the 360. It will always be the consumer's choice whether or not they want it.

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I plan on getting one of these ASAP for the HDMI alone (which I need to play HD DVDS in 1080p on my setup).

DarthBeavis wrote:

I plan on getting one of these ASAP for the HDMI alone (which I need to play HD DVDS in 1080p on my setup).

Hopefully 1080P is supported by the HD-DVD player. I'm not sure if it is.

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Stiffler wrote:

DarthBeavis wrote:

I plan on getting one of these ASAP for the HDMI alone (which I need to play HD DVDS in 1080p on my setup).

Hopefully 1080P is supported by the HD-DVD player. I'm not sure if it is.

U can do 1080p right now over VGA cable but my TV puts damned box around it.

http://www.engadget.com/2006/1.....p-vga-fix/

DarthBeavis wrote:

Stiffler wrote:

DarthBeavis wrote:

I plan on getting one of these ASAP for the HDMI alone (which I need to play HD DVDS in 1080p on my setup).

Hopefully 1080P is supported by the HD-DVD player. I'm not sure if it is.

U can do 1080p right now over VGA cable but my TV puts damned box around it.

http://www.engadget.com/2006/1.....p-vga-fix/

I thought that was only for upscaling DVDs at the moment...

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nice.

it looks awesome.. now will they release the 512MB card in black?

Palebrew wrote:

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=6671

Apparently it is HDMI 1.2, not HDMI 1.3 (what the PS3 has). Not sure whether the bandwidth it offers will make any real difference, but there it is.

Palebrew wrote:

My question is "Why no integrated hddvd?"

should i wait longer for the 65nm and hope there is a hd drive put in later this year?

They've stuck to their claim of it being an option, due to it possibly dying off. At this point I'm calling HD-DVD dead. It will take quite a while, but it looks like they're in a (very) slow death spiral at this point.

BTW shouldn't this be in the console area?

yea... i don't know how its possible but i set the xbox360 here to 1080p yesterday over component... and it works! the TV even reads it at 1080p. Looks super good too.

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MistrWebmastr wrote:

it looks awesome.. now will they release the 512MB card in black?

How does the song go?

"Back in Black!" Very Happy

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Shouldent this be in the "Console Area" of the forum?

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I got mine today and hooked it up. First, some people have said you have to do audio over hdmi if you use HDMI. Well, that is false. You can use optical and HDMI at the same time. Ignore anyone who says otherwise.
With the Elite and an HD DVD drive you can watch HD DVDS at 1080p over HDMI. Not sure what the HDMI spec is yet.

DarthBeavis wrote:

I got mine today and hooked it up. First, some people have said you have to do audio over hdmi if you use HDMI. Well, that is false. You can use optical and HDMI at the same time. Ignore anyone who says otherwise.
With the Elite and an HD DVD drive you can watch HD DVDS at 1080p over HDMI. Not sure what the HDMI spec is yet.

It's HDMI 1.2. Which means no superior audio features...

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Stiffler wrote:

DarthBeavis wrote:

I got mine today and hooked it up. First, some people have said you have to do audio over hdmi if you use HDMI. Well, that is false. You can use optical and HDMI at the same time. Ignore anyone who says otherwise.
With the Elite and an HD DVD drive you can watch HD DVDS at 1080p over HDMI. Not sure what the HDMI spec is yet.

It's HDMI 1.2. Which means no superior audio features...

* New HD lossless audio formats: In addition to HDMI’s current ability to support high-bandwidth uncompressed digital audio and all currently-available compressed formats (such as Dolby® Digital and DTS®), HDMI 1.3 adds additional support for new lossless compressed digital audio formats Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio™.

Q. Do I need v1.3 HDMI to hear the new Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master HD audio content on HD-DVD or Blu-ray players?

No. The Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Digital Plus, and DTS-HD Master Audio can be decoded by the playback device into multi-channel Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) digital audio streams, which is an audio format standard that can be sent over any version of HDMI. In fact, all versions of HDMI can support up to 8 channels of PCM audio at 192kHz, 24 bits per sample.

To do this, consumers should ensure that their playback device (such as HD-DVD or Blu-ray player) is capable of decoding these new lossless Dolby & DTS audio formats into the PCM format on the HDMI output, and that the audio device (such as an A/V receiver) is capable of receiving multi-channel PCM audio over the HDMI inputs. Consult your user manual/product specification sheet to determine whether your device supports such PCM capabilities (we believe that nearly all HD-DVD and Blu-ray players will, but users should confirm this). Devices that support HDMI v1.3 and higher may also offer the option to transport the high definition audio formats as a compressed, encoded stream over HDMI so that the decoding function can be performed by the A/V receiver (whereas the above transport method has the playback device performing the decoding).

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