Lite-On is going to Develop Blu-Ray Discs for the 360
Another Blu-Ray Disc issue, I thought this issue is over since I posted this news a couple of weeks earlier, like the Xbox 360 Blu-Ray Drive and the other news No Blu-Ray for the Xbox 360!
Now it seems the The Blu-Ray issue for the Xbox 360 is alive again as you can see from this post on DigiTimes :
Lite-On’s shipments of the BD ROMs to Microsoft will start in the second half of 2008, the sources added. Lite-On is currently one of the suppliers of Xbox 360-use internal DVD-ROM drives.
Microsoft has decided to switch to BD for its Xbox 360 game consoles after Toshiba announced to discontinue HD DVD, the sources said. The BD-ROM drives that Lite-On is developing for Microsoft are for the next-generation Xbox 360 game consoles, the sources said.
Power supply makers also revealed that while the present Xbox 360 uses a 210-watt power supply, the next-generation game console will use a 170-watt power supply in order to reduce production cost and the size of the device, according to the sources.
Lite-On has already started steady shipments of BD-ROM drives and BD burners, the sources added.
Oh well let’s not get our hopes up on this one. As we all know that the previous models that have the 90nm graphic chips need a lot more power but a new batch of console would come with a 170W power supply from the previous 210W to support the 65nm graphic chips which reduces the power draw and the internal heat of the game system.
This maybe an April Fool’s Day Prank…