Re: will British gamers pay $530 USD for Xbox 360

On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 02:08:37 +0100, "[ste parker]"
<imaginey@xxxxxxxxxxx> decided to reveal their innermost thoughts to
uk.games.video.misc by sending the following:

>Personally, any consideration I have will wait until the machine gets a
>functional HD-DVD drive, which, from current reports, it will not ship
>with initially. May be fixable with a bios update perhaps, but I'd
>rather wait until more is known.

I fail to see how a BIOS update can change the drive type. HD-DVD and
BluRay both use blue lasers which have a shorter wavelength than the
red lasers currently used by DVD drives (CD uses an infrared laser for
point of comparison).

A BIOS update can not change the emission frequency of a laser head.
Their is no conceivable mechanism by which it could.


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