Lite-On builds Blu-ray drives for new Xbox - report

1 Apr 2008 | 09:25 BST

By INQUIRER Newsdesk

MAKER OF DISC-SPINNERS Lite-On is building Blu-ray Disc-(BD) ROM drives for the Microsoft Xbox 360 console, according to Taiwan-based Digitimes' sources.

Lite-On currently builds DVD drives for the Volish box, but it looks like Microsoft will bite Sony's bullet and move up to Blu-ray, since it can't persuade anyone to make HD-DVD drives any more.

Lite-On will begin shipping drives to Microsoft in the latter half of this year, Digitimes' unverified sources said. They also said the firm has begun shipping the drives already so unless a poisson d'avril has swum under the drawbridge, someone's a bit confused.

The drives headed for Microsoft are for the next-generation Xbox, the 361. µ

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