Xbox 360 May Get HD DVD Help from Toshiba

Announcing the news in Tokyo yesterday, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates told reporters that his company and electronics giant Toshiba are expanding their alliance, planning to work on high-definition DVD players that would use a specialized version of Windows. Gates also said Microsoft might consider using HD DVD in a future update of the company’s upcoming Xbox 360 video game console.

HD DVD’s are a direct rival to Blu Ray, and even though Blu Ray can hold 50GB worth of data, compared to the HD DVD’s 30GB, they are more costly to build. I would hope, that if games were to be developed using HD DVD’s, that it wouldn’t go over 30GB, not that it would matter. But wow, that’s a LOT of space! Check out the full article at Tech News World.