{"id":85914,"date":"1999-12-31T00:37:00","date_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smartoffice.com.au\/xbox-to-get-hd-dvd\/"},"modified":"1999-12-31T00:37:00","modified_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:37:00","slug":"xbox-to-get-hd-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.strixdevelopment.net\/smartoffice\/1999\/12\/31\/xbox-to-get-hd-dvd\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox To Get HD-DVD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Launching ahead of the Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft&#8217;s xBox may have gained first mover advantage, but it did so at a cost.<\/p>\n<p>While the Sony console will sport a next generation, high definition DVD drive, Microsoft, which is really yet to fully endorse either Blu Ray or HD DVD, opted for a standard DVD drive in its second generation console.<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=p1>However, the word from <st1_country-region w_st=\"on\"><st1_place w_st=\"on\">Taiwan is that Microsoft now plans to offer a solution which could help it increase peripheral sales on the new xBox consoles. 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