It looks like after all the
rumor-mongering and
speculation, the bomb
is in fact dropping on Xbox 360 Premium hopefuls: the game systems are shipping with HDMI. At least one lucky customer who purchased a Premium system at a
Target in Atlanta is currently enjoying the spoils of Microsoft's not-so-secret addition, so hot out of tips and direct to your eyes, we present the first of many you'll be seeing with the much-discussed, built-in HDMI port (and
obviously perhaps the cooler 65nm chips onboard). You can stop saving and start buying -- as long as your Xbox was built on or around July 4th, a date which will now be remembered for two reasons.
Update - Apparently, there's nothing "obvious" about that 65nm chip situation. Right now it looks like some may have it, and some may not.
[Via
Shacknews, thanks Tim]
posted August 8th 2007 5:33PM
With the Slim PS2, you LOST the Hard Drive Port, and gained a built in Ethernet port!!! HDMI isn't something to cry over. If MS improves something then people bitch. If MS does NOTHING, other people bitch. MS can't win either way. Right now I could care less about it. My HDTV only has DVI anyway. Sure I could get a HDMI to DVI cable, but why? Not going to get a better picture. When it's time to buy a NEW HDTV, the new Box will be coming out and then I can worry then. At least I've been enjoying playing 360 games since Dec 26th 2005!!!
I think it's a great move on MS part. Add HDMI and drop the price $50. That makes it even a better deal over the PS3. Besides it's all about the GAMES which the PS3 lacks greatly, and Component works just great for that.
I just wish they would bring out a cable that would convert the plug that is already there to HDMI. then all the people with the original xbox could then use HDMI...
Please????
3rd parties do make them - Several Issues:
- It's a box (component / audio -> HDMI), not a cable so it takes up more space
- Quality may / may not be that great
- Still won't get any upconversion because the output is analog
- They typically cost at least 1/2 the price of a new 360...
Google "component to hdmi converter" and you'll find several offerings...
Okay, still no answer to the 65nm question. Has anyone cracked one of these open to see yet, or not?
How can you say "and obviously the cooler 65nm chips onboard" - there's nothing obvious about it.
The Elite has HDMI, yet uses the 90nm chips, so obviously MS has an HDMI + 90nm motherboard available. Every other site to report this story has dutifully noted that it's not confirmed whether these units also have the revised processor.
We won't really know until someone cracks one open.
HDMI is not _needed_ nor is it a major revision (needed isnt the same thing as wanted). HDMI is a video(/audio) output plug, it doesn't mean "OMG it makes halo 3 play much better, I have an unfair advantage over you early adopter suckers". It's a connector for video (and audio). Not a LAN port, not a new graphics chip, not an accelerator. It might make your game look a smidge better looking; it won't give you an advantage.
HDMI is needed for me if I want to watch my HDDVD movies in 1080p. My set only does 1080p via HDMI.
HDMI cables are grotesquely overpriced. They should not be priced >$25, and the difference between those monoprice $8 cables and a monster $80 cable is the name and $72 you gave them.
if my first gen xBox breaks, and i send it back for repairs will i get an HIDMI unit?
i just got a shipping box to send back my 360 in for reapir and its not the usual white coffin. its a brown box sent by fedex overnight and the packing instructions tells me to include my power supply?? does anyone think this has anything to do with the new chipset? does the 90nm and 65nm chipset use the same type of power supply?
I'll keep sending MS my contently breaking consoles in hopes to get a new one w/ the new chips and HDMI... I mean I'm on console 5, I'm sure by 6 or 7 they'll have it right. Right??? Anywho, I hope this puts a damper on the 360's breaking issue. Now I hope they fix the disk drive (i.e faulty, disk scratching drives).
Looks like in a couple of months time we will be seeing a lot of overheating Xbox 360's returned to retailers for replacement, time to start deliberately overheating folks?
Interesting read, Sony fanboys will love this!!
http://www.hardcoreware.net/reviews/review-348-1.htm