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"If you've been following this story even a little bit over the last few months, you probably won't exactly be shocked to hear that Microsoft is going to roll out a USB HD DVD drive for the Xbox 360. But if you're tracking the ongoing format war between HD DVD and Blu-ray, you should check out Microsoft's announcement anyhow. What's unusual about this release is that you won't find any rhetoric about HD DVD being superior to Blu-ray -- or even a ghost of Bill Gates' earlier comments that the latter format was &amp;quot;anti-consumer.&amp;quot; Instead, Microsoft calls the quality of the two formats &amp;quot;a wash in terms of video quality,&amp;quot; and declares that the main difference between the two is pricing. We assume that means the 360's HD DVD drive will be a bargain. Unfortunately, that's one detail Microsoft has skipped, preferring to &amp;quot;save that good news for another day.&amp;quot; Like maybe the day after the PS3 -- which will have a Blu-ray drive built in -- gets its official price?[Via Joystiq]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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