Add some high-def movie magic to your Xbox console
Sony’s Playstation 2 is often credited with having a big hand in the success of DVD, since the hugely popular games console featured built-in support for the then fledgling movie format.
It’s perhaps no surprise, then, that two new high-definition video formats are latching themselves onto the star power of the latest next-generation games consoles.
Blu-ray and HD DVD both promise improved picture and sound quality over standard DVDs and, while Sony’s Playstation 3 will be Blu-ray-compatible out of the box when it finally arrives in the UK in March, Microsoft has already released an HD DVD drive for its Xbox 360 console – one of the first HD DVD devices to appear in the UK.