Re: Upcoming & future Xbox 360 motherboard / chipset revisions are: Jasper, Opus and Valhalla - The Valhalla to have 65 or 45 nm combined CPU-GPU in 2009

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips John Lewis <john.dsl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
in part:
> Now, exactly which version of these will have an integrated
> Blu-ray drive????  If you do not know, you had better keep
> your hands firmly clutching your wallet. It is going to
> happen sooner than later now that HD-DVD is firmly dead.

Just because HD-DVD is dead does not mean Blu-ray will thrive.
There is competition from upscaled DVDs:

http://www.economist.com/daily/columns/techview/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10610923

As always, the question will be "Is the difference worth it?"
Not something a techie can answer.  It depends on mass market
perceptions.  If Joe Sixpack can plug a [sinfully expensive] HDMI
cable into a decent DVD player and his HDTV and see a picture as
good as s/he remembers from the BigBox store Blu-ray, why would they
switch?  Only if the blu-ray players become really cheap, there might
a movie or two the SFX or other visuals will be worth the premium.

Please remember, Sony PSP, Apple iPod, airline seat backs and personal
DVD players all show fewer than 400 lines.  People still watch.

-- Robert