The rear of the HD DVD drive, showing extra USB ports and a dock for the Xbox 360 wireless adapter. Unlike other black accessories which were created alongside the black Elite console, the black HD DVD drive was never made available to the general public. Special black versions of the drive, along with black media remotes, were given to members of the Xbox 360 HD DVD development team. Peter Moore had stated that if HD DVD loses the format war, Microsoft may also release an external Blu-ray drive. Two days later, the price of the HD DVD Player was reduced to a clearance price of $49.99. This decision came just days after Toshiba's announcement to discontinue all HD DVD players and effectively end the format war between Blu-ray and HD DVD.

On February 23, 2008, the Xbox 360 HD DVD player was abandoned by Microsoft. According to Japan's chief of Xbox operations, Yoshihiro Maruyama, Microsoft would not release Xbox 360 games in the new disc formats. At E3 2006, Microsoft officially presented the external HD DVD drive. It was initially sold for $199.īill Gates announced during his keynote speech at CES 2006 that an external HD DVD drive would be released for the Xbox 360 during 2006. Microsoft offered the drive for sale between November 2006 and February 2008. The Xbox 360 HD DVD Player is a discontinued accessory for the Xbox 360 console that enables the playback of movies on HD DVD discs. 316,000 in the US (as of December 31, 2007) Īnalog stereo, stereo LPCM, Dolby Digital, DTS

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