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 combination with being the family games-machine. A $200 Blu-ray
> peripheral does not cut the mustard, with price of a complete PS3 now
> at $399.  And it will be $200, as it requires serious internal
> programmable smarts to track the evolving Blu-ray standard. The
> internal drive in the PS3 gets these 'smarts' for free.

So, in theory, will the hypothetical Xbox 360 blu-ray attachment: the
standard changes are all on the playback side, and that'd be done in
software.  The attachment would just be a dumb drive on a USB2 cord, same
as
the current HD-DVD attachment.

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