The ranting of an IT Professional » xbox http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/it-rant Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:30:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 External Blu-ray drive coming to the Xbox 360 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/it-rant/external-blu-ray-drive-coming-to-the-xbox-360/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/it-rant/external-blu-ray-drive-coming-to-the-xbox-360/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:41:17 +0000 Jason Tramer http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/it-rant/external-blu-ray-drive-coming-to-the-xbox-360/ And the last horse finally cross’s the finish line ….

Steve Ballmer has confirmed that an external Blu-ray drive will be coming to the Xbox 360.

Check out the article:

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/10/22/ballmer_bluray_xbox/

All I can say about this it’s about time, way to catch the last train out of the station on this one.

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The next day I tried again and had the same issue, so I called back to Xbox support where I was informed that apparently this wasn’t a known issue. After some troubleshooting with the tech I was informed that the issue was the HDD and I should try formatting it and if that doesn’t work to replace it. I found this odd that the issue began right after an update.

While I had been talking to the tech I had started a download for the Mirror’s Edge demo and it had completed right after I got off the phone. I figured why not give it a shot. Demo came up fine and I was able to play through it with no issue.  Out of curiosity I figured I would load up Fable 2 again and this time it worked fine, as did all my other games. So apparently the Mirror’s Edge demo is capable of fixing a defective HDD issue which is both a known/non-known issue that occurs coincidentally after the latest Xbox update. Brilliant.

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