XBOX 360 price cut in Europe

European Xbox 360 price cuts are now the real deal. The 360 Arcade is now just €199.99 / £159.99, while the Premium drops €80 / £50 to €269.99 / £199.99 and the Elite comes down €80 / £40 to €369.99 / £259.99.

From Engadget

MS dropping 20GB for 60GB

TrustedReviews is now reporting that the 20GB hard drive in the standard Xbox 360 model is about to get the boot in favor of a more spacious 60GB one. That apparently comes from a “rock solid source,” who says that they (Microsoft)want  it out the door by the end of its financial year, which comes at the end of June.

Also they go into a bit of speculation, saying that Microsoft is going to make” a model with a built-in Blu-ray drive would seem to be “the most logical conclusion,” although they say an external drive “makes sense too.” While that possibility obviously remains up in the air, TrustedReviews is about as confident as can be with the 60GB Xbox 360 news, saying that you can take it to the bank.

Look out people here comes the XBOX 720!

XBOX 360 Add-on is now 50$

The XBOX 360 Add-on is now 49.99$. Go get them while they are hot!

HD DVD add-on for XBOX360 is dead.

I couldn’t report on the death of HDDVD cause I wasn’t here. Anyway now I am sad to report the death of the HD-DVD add on for the XBOX 360. It is no longer available.

XBOX360 HD DVD Player now $129.99

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This just in: The Xbox 360 HD DVD Player price has dropped from $179.99 to $129.99 (U.S. MSRP.) This new price is effective immediately in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Combine the new price with the 5 free HD DVD offer and it’s a pretty good deal.

Microsoft following Warner?

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With the announcement of Warner Bros going Blu-Ray and murmurings of Paramount going the same way, Microsoft has revealed that should the tide turn towards Sony’s technology it would consider supporting the Blu-ray with the Xbox 360. (Duh!)

Microsoft has previously aligned themselves to Toshiba’s technology, offering an HD-DVD add-on for the Xbox 360. So this means its R.I.P for the built-in HD DVD drive?

More and More blows to the HD DVD side….. Could this be the final call?

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Tech on wordpress…

I was just putting technology in front of .wordpress.com and I found disturbing things.

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CES 2008 | Updates from Twitter for Microsoft Keynote

Bill Gates Keynote (http://twitter.com/majornelson)

CES 2008 | Microsoft | Watch Bill Gates live

Join Bill Gates, Microsoft Chairman, and Robbie Bach, President of the Entertainment & Devices Division, along with their surprise guests for the opening keynote of CES 2008. Since Bill Gates first keynoted CES almost 15 years ago, consumer technology has changed dramatically. Listen as Bill Gates and Robbie Bach discuss the impact of the digital decade and the future of connected experiences enabled by Microsoft’s consumer technology.

Xbox rumors: Live users to get an integrated HD DVD drive.

[Engadget]

Not that we’d put it past Microsoft or anything, but we can already smell a rumor brewing where there is probably none regarding the long-speculated and continuously denied plans to integrate an HD DVD drive into the Xbox 360. Granted, Bill’s got to have something to talk about on stage at CES next week, but we we’re not putting much stock in the pure speculation of a fresh Seattle Times piece, which, without sources, simply holds that “Microsoft could also make a splash by announcing plans to give the Xbox 360 an internal HD-DVD drive”. Yep, they could do that which has been speculated endlessly since the HD DVD drive itself was announced in 2006 — or not. Guess we’ll find out for sure next week. Just don’t get your hopes up.