this seems to clear things up a bit, he talks about how what we have been seeing at the moment may be just a prototype that MS is playing around with. Of cource he may just be a spin doctor trying to protect an announcement.

I buy a console thinking that those days are over; I have purchased a stand alone video game unit that I WON’T have to upgrade until the NEXT XBOX comes out 4 years down the road. Sure I was going to buy the nice little gadget that comes out, $50-60 bucks, no biggy.

I want HDMI on the XBOX because I want to free up FIVE cables running to my TV with ONE cable. Is that really a reason for me to want HDMI? Prolly not. I don’t have a reason to really be that upset, but again I have that feeling of NEEDING to be on the cutting edge of technology. Maybe I have personal issues of inadequacy. Maybe my mother didn’t breast feed me, I don’t know. M$ however will break the unwritten rules of the console. A major change like the processor and how the image is sent from analog to digital should not be done. Once again I will have to UPGRADE my console spending possibly another $200 ( Lets just say they give an upgrade option), and I will be at a total of $799. Why did I leave PC gaming?

This is a rumor though right? I am getting upset for no reason. I am sure Microsoft will make the right decision. I am laughing IRL.

Hazard, they used a computer monitor which only has a DVI connector (also digital) so they had to use an adapter to convert the dvi cable to have an HDMI connector which connects to the 360. Obviously with an HDMI tv, you just use a HDMI cable - no conversion needed; any HDMI cable will work, you do not need an ‘official’ cable if Microsoft will even provide one.

think about it!!

Unless it comes stright from Micro$$$$oft it’s only a rumour. people should take what they see on these “non offical” sites with a pinch of salt after all there only human like the rest of us and it’s human nature for them to get just as excited(or not) as the rest of us

You still get the full HD experience with or without the new 360 through component/VGA.

For now I call it a fake.

I’d say that’s more like ‘thousands’.

By doing so, you are contributing to the “illegal” dessimination of CONFIDENTIAL “XX company”/Biz information.

I’m still buying a 65nm 360 though. I have multiple consoles in different rooms as my entire family plays games to some extent, so it’s only a matter of time until I pick up a 2nd.

The HDMI 1.3 Spec was not finalized when the XBOX360 launched, nor was it finalized for several months after that. Sony was a leading partner in finalizing this spec (which allows the 1080p output + piracy encryption) and dragged their feet on the process. On purpose? who knows. But rather fishy nonetheless.

So short of it.
Why didn’t MS include the HDMI?
It had not come to fruition yet!

Gotta figure that Billy has some reveals for the 360 (last year’s was the HD-DVD drive) … i was figuring that separate HDMI and HDDs might be the news, so a new 360 with both wasn’t too far off.

Bottomline: everyone’s known that MS has had to have had some plans for a larger HDD in the works (they’e been quiet on the subject, but it is reasonable to assume that something was in the works). And *if* they could’ve easily done HDMI with the 1st box then I think we would’ve already seen it in November when the HD-DVD and PS3 came out.

Engadget’s not much on a rumor monger, IMO, so I largely buy this.

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Pretty old. I wonder why this comes up again

The DVD drive makes the noise, not the CPU fan.

I call fake, but thats just me.