History of the Xbox 360 HD DVD Drive | Past Mortem SSFF

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“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.” -The Art of War

2:25 Small correction, a blue laser can read and write more data than a red one not necessarily because it contains "more energy" it's because it has a higher frequency wavelength, that means the laser can be smaller, and thus it can be more precisely focused, that means they could then cram significantly more data into the same amount of physical space as a DVD or CD, and because it can be more precisely focused they could also pack more translucent layers of data into that same amount of space...

As a commenter from Company Man’s video so eloquently put it: “The first ever DVD released was Twister, and the last HDDVD ever released was Twister.” How poetic.

I've cornered the market on Peter Jackson's King Kong on HD-DVD

My dad was a pretty big HD DVD supporter and was pretty salty when it lost, even holding off on getting a Blu-Ray player for a year or so afterward and refusing to get Netflix for a while because of how they dropped HD DVD. Our first Blu-Ray player was a PS3, and he still collects HD DVDs if he finds them at thrift stores (which he plays on our 360 drive).

All these fools fighting over disc formats were never prepared for the xbox 360's ZUNE MARKETPLACE!

Y’all knuckleheads saying porn won the format war as if porn didn’t also realize the future was online streaming 🤦🏻‍♂️ (👆🏻👆🏻ALSO see our pinned comment 👆🏻👆🏻)

"Massive" 120 GB. Ah, memories

"all about that dongle lifestyle" Might be a punching weight challenge: how many accessories/dongles can be active on a console at once?

As someone there at the time, the FINAL nail in the coffin for “HD DVD” was, in my opinion, when Microsoft released the Xbox 360 Elite at a big mark up and it did not include HD DVD as a base feature and you still had to buy the external TURD.

I worked at Sony during some of this, and was at the CES where Toshiba had canceled the press conferences. Their huge HD-DVD booth on the show floor was a very sad sight to see. I also went to the Microsoft booth and tried to play Guitar Hero, and their demo 360 immediately RRoD'ed on me. It felt like a good time to be a Sony employee.

I still prefer physical formats because I have enough experience with weird-ass net connections to not want to put everything online. Besides, I wanna own my shit and hand it down to someone else in the future.

I only remember this war from the sidelines. I had no idea how deep it went. Good thing Sony learned their lesson and didn't invest in a portable media format that could only be played on a handheld console

You thought Sony was responsible for the PS3 delay. But it was me, DIode!

Speaking of royalties on formats and whatnot, you all should make a video about the history of Nintendo completely avoiding every single one of the "main" formats used during these consoles lifetime. They always did their own thing, and I'd love to hear an in-depth story about that.

Honestly, the durability and capacity advantage of Blu-ray is what really killed the war before it even began.

"That's why it's called the 360. It goes in a circle. I'm dizzy." Never change, Derek.

19:13 FYI, there were no "Total Hi Def" discs that ever made it to market. WB announced Total Hi Def at CES '07, but they ended up putting development of these discs on hold in November of that same year because of a lack of interest from other studios.

I'd much rather have blu-ray movies for the clarity of both sound and picture and the fact that I can sell it to someone else or even give it to family members if I get legitimately bored of the game. Online only is still a bunch of BS... P.T, connection issues, DRMs and the fact that companies can remove these games without any warning... Man... I'm still wishing that Scott Pilgrim vs the World would still make it onto the ps4, XboneX, steam or GoG....