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“Every eight seconds, a new homepage. We never did learn HTML, and didn't need to.”
“It played the losing side's movies beautifully, and never once complained about it.”
Announced by Bill Gates at CES 2006 and shown off at E3 that same year, the Xbox 360 HD DVD Player was an external drive that let your 360 play movies on HD DVD discs, launched in November 2006 at $199. Microsoft was clear it was a movie accessory, not a destiny: Yoshihiro Maruyama confirmed there would be no Xbox 360 games on the new disc formats. For a couple of years, it was the affordable way to hedge your bets i
The war ended on February 23, 2008, when Toshiba pulled the plug on HD DVD entirely, and Microsoft discontinued the drive just days later, cutting the price to a clearance $49.99 two days after that. Peter Moore had once mused that Microsoft might release an external Blu-ray drive if HD DVD lost, a claim Microsoft later denied. Fittingly, every future Xbox 360 console and dashboard kept compatibility with the little
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“Every eight seconds, a new homepage. We never did learn HTML, and didn't need to.”
“Free, legal, and lovable - just never profitable. The hardest chorus to sing.”
“It let you edit your friends' pages, and no social network has trusted us since.”