Celebrities were in attendance at the XBox 360 E3 party in Hollywood yesterday. The folks at Endgadget were also there, and reported about the new peripherals for the XBox, including an add-on HD DVD drive, to be released this Christmas season. They snapped some covert pictures of the new drive, and are not sure how good it will be
Steel yourself for a shock, but the HD DVD drive was actually looking like it was just going to be a regular 5.25-inch HD DVD drive slapped in a 360-styled external enclosure. Now that you’ve collected yourself after that bit of hysteria, we can tell you the (non-functional) drive itself had only a power plug (which looked to be of the variety that runs to the wall, no adapter required), a mini USB host port for connecting to the 360, two full USB ports for the device to otherwise act as a USB hub, and a spot for your 360 WiFi adapter to latch on the back since it could possibly be displaced by the use of the rear USB port to get this thing running on the console.
Will you be able to buy their drive at a huge loss? If MS releases with a $200 or less MSRP to make the core pack compete with Sony’s lowest-end PlayStation 3, you could. But will you be able to plug it into a computer and have a functioning HD DVD drive (either via USB or by tearing it down)? Will Microsoft introduce an integrated HD DVD drive into future “premium” 360 consoles? There are just way too many questions to be answered with this one people, but what we do know is that in one form or another this thing exists, and we can’t wait to get our hands on the real deal.
Here are Paris Hilton, Michael Vartan, rageaholic Bijou Philips, Danny Masterson, Matthew Perry, Caroline D’Amore and Taryn Manning sampling the goods. Of all the games available, Taryn Manning chose to play PacMan. Matthew Perry also seemed confused by the Jenny Holzer-type screensaver text art.
Thank you so much for posting these pics, Michael Vartan looks absolutely HOT 😉
I guess you kinda noticed that I wanna make up for my horrible comment I did earlier, so I’m posting as many nice ones as possible, to show you how much I appreciate your blog ^^
That is really nice of you thanks! Comments are always appreciated and I would love it if you would comment regularly. Vartan doesn’t get out much from what we can see. He is hot, isn’t he? The was a story that Vartan was pissed when he was a victim of a Punk’d prank and refused to sign the waiver to let the episode air. I was going to link to that, but then I googled it, and Vartan denies it ever happened, so it’s a non-story, really.
Oh what a pity, I would have loved to see him getting punk’d.. I loooved him in Alias and although I enjoy seeing Jennifer Garner with Ben Affleck, she looked great with Michael Vartan as well 😉