From Gamespot:
http://tinyurl.com/y9ztm5
GS: All this cool HD stuff that you're talking about starts to take up
space. The 20GB for a lot of people is already starting to fill up. Seeing
how Microsoft has been great about responding to customer needs on the Xbox
360, can you speak to larger-capacity hard drives?
CS: That's not really something we're looking at today. We're very open to
feedback on it. As we produce these services, if we see an increase in
pressure that's something that will be interesting to look at, but there
isn't any announcement today about any new configuration that may or may not
be happening.
GS: What can you tell us about the HDMI-enabled Xbox 360 rumors that have
been going around?
CS: We're always working on prototypes and new technologies and just playing
with stuff in Redmond to see what's interesting. I think at the moment we
have the widest available connections on the system. If you want to get
great HD, I think we've got a good solution for that. In the future it's
interesting to see where standards evolve to. I think one of the problems
that the whole industry, us and entertainment, are facing at the moment is
we're in this world where standards are evolving very quickly.
We have different high-definition standards for discs that we know are
competing at the moment. We think HD-DVD is going to be the right way to go,
but really it's all about choice in that system so that's why we're offering
these sort of services with downloads--skip that whole "format wars"
problem. With other standards, audiovideo standards, they're evolving very
quickly as well. We're obviously keeping an eye on that and saying, "What
are the future standards and how do we give consumers the right choice for
that?"
At the moment, everything you might have seen is just looking at our
experimentation back in Redmond, not really a product that we're thinking
about announcing.
So -- huh? What do you make of that? Of course they'll deny rumers etc. but
come on all this new HD downloadable stuff and now IPTV not to mention
demos, XBLA, ripped music and extra content via XBL and 20 gigs is fine?
After having cooled off after three mini-strokes and fourteen minor heart
attacks over the HDMI thingy I guess I was expecting to hear something from
CES. HDMI or no one thing is certain they need to whip out a larger HDD.
That would be a welcome change whether aquired on a new system or by
up-grading an earlier model.
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