I take it you liked my "sophisticated" sarcasm, and you asked a good question; "who are the other 4?" I wish I knew, because I want to blame all 5 of you for this whole 1080p debate. Oh, and you better start saving for that HDMI cable "add on" its probably going to be twice as expensive as the 1080p HDTV that you were able to AFFORD.

don't try to change things around. You Sony fanboys said the XBox 360 can't do 1080P now it can. Later say that it's not possible for it to have HDMI, now it can. Those are the facts. Next.

Wouldn't connection include the output spot to plug the hdmi cable into? The port they have now outputs an alog signal, would they need some kind of adaptor or could they get by with hdmi out of that port?

and give is lossless audio as well. I'd love for MS to prove Amir (MS exec)wrong.

I'll happily give you more money MS in exchange for HDMI 1.3.

Finally the news ive been waiting for hdmi for the 360,lol just hurry up and release it already

The 360 is very future proof as i was saying and companies like "Monster Cable" and "Mad Catz" are just itching to sell their over priced $60-$70 HDMI. Thats 15 out of 19 predictions. Im getting good at this. Sony fans missunderstand MS's exec's straight forwardness. The dude was asked something and he answered as things are right now.

Yes, everything that was always possible has been kept a secret on MS's part. Flaming from sonyfanboys about the 360's capabilities will forever continue with the lame "addon" flame.

Hey it was possible all along, just another sweet surprise. What difference does it make. The fact is it's capable if you actually want or need it. My cheap HDTV happen to have an HDMI port so I'm all set. it's not that the 360 is becoming th e PS3 but more so the PS3 never knew the capabilities of the 360.

What does an cable have to do with add-ons?, will you're PS3 come with an HDMI cable?.

i'm more than willing to forget HDMI and just connect my xbox 360 via VGA cable for 1080p

the quality loss is neglectible in my eyes

I'm not going to complain about the system doing 1080p through HDMI; that's great news for you guys. I'm happy you all are happy (even though I recall everyone saying that 1080p on PS3 through HDMI was pointless, useless, impossible, and marketless, etc., ad nauseum). The thing I don't understand is, if the system was capable of this from the beginning, why is it something that wasn't implemented from the get-go, and if Microsoft always knew they could do it, why did the come out and say that Sony couldn't/wouldn't/shouldn't?

but don't you have to buy the HDMI cable for the PS3, as well? I saw somewhere were the cable didn't come packaged for either PS3 sku.

Most of us were saying it's not that important because no one has an 1080p HDTV. 1080p HDMI isn't a good tool to use to bash another company for not having and was quite stupid to try and sell PS3 and use HDMI and 1080p as an selling point. I think people(X-FANS) are just glad that rabid Sonyfanboys with SDTV's have two more reasons tookin away to attack them. 1080p is not needed like MS said.

i never complained or compared 360 to ps3 about not having these features....
it was always the 360 fanboys who said that every "extra" feature in ps3 as pointless and useless and so was microsoft. it is not possible and so on..
on every article TheMart, Real Deal/Top gamer post an essay of bullsh*t about how 99.99999999999% people dont need these features and on and on.....now why is microsoft trying to add such features maybe god spoke to bill gates to do this....
why are they so forced to put such "pointless" features in a half as*ed way as sony did with ps2 online service and probably would do with ps3 online service for quite a while?
i think these features do matter or atleast would matter alot soon enough and the respective companies dont realized it soon enough.

and when and if microsoft is able to provide you with all these features u should compare it cost with ps3........

IS it me or am I seeing things "Zoidy" voted Cool on a 360 article...Anyhow yes X360-fans were saying it was pointless to add HDMI/1080p to a console and attempt to sell it at a high cost. Since there is not a Huge difference in the games, as you will loose quality with 1080p.

Since MS is capable, X360-fans wanna state that, while it still does not change its importance to them but it does, do a great shutting up sony about 1080p or what-not.

"see I tol you so"

Ive been watching a few of the ps3 games running in 1080p and there is a difference it just looks better running in 1080p,i for one will be snapping up one of theses hdmi cables as soon as they are available,i mean the 360 games look mindblowing running in 720p,gods knows how they will look in 1080p AWESOME

You FULL-O-S, for the most part all they where saying is no one has 1080p HDTV's so whats the bid deal.

I have a Samsung 1080p HDTV but I don't have a HDMI surround sound receiver, all I have is optical for sound, so if M$ sells an HDMI cable I hope it has optical like the HD cable, if not more money for a new HDMI surround receiver.LOL the money pit (JUST SH@@T ME)

If it's not HDMI 1.3 (which it won't be) the PS3 will still have a significant hardware advantage. It's funny how Microsoft keeps creating add-ons and upgrades in a sad attempt to keep up with the built-in features of the PS3. Sony futureproofs while Microsoft forces people to spend money on add-ons. They could've built the features in for a lower price, but decided to make us pay for these features separately and with profit margins to boot. They come from the PC market so I guess it should've been expected.

how can the 360 use a HDMI cable if the 360 doesnt have any HDMI sockets for its console?

The ONE AND ONLY TV technology that that lets you see a digital picture is DLP. ALL OTHERS (plasma, CRT, LCD) can receive a digital signal, but it's converted to analog in the last step before viewing. HDMI is no better than VGA if you don't have a DLP. So all the Sony guys saying "you have to have it" won't even notice a difference unless they have a 1080p input capable DLP. Just a fun bit of info I thought I'd share.

Thats what I have for my 360, and when ps3 is out, so i'm safe if thats the case.Bring on the HDMI.

How many people have HDTV and if they have 1080p post your info would just like to know

All the PS3 owners who want this add on.....ooops I mean HDMI cables will have to buy it seperately.

http://www.ps3land.com/arti...

I have a samsung HDTV only 26" but that's plenty big enough, it's purely for the 360. Cost around £800 around about a year ago. I'm sure they're even cheaper now, although it's still a fair amount of money. I've even seen them advertised (not sure what make etc..) for £400 in Woolworths. Anyway my point, I have the machine, I have the TV so, for the price of a cheap HDMI or VGA cable (£15/£20) then why not have the best possible picture? After all isn't that why we got HDTV's in the first place?

i read the article and this is what i drew from it

The xbox 360 and hd-dvd add on neither have hdmi sockets

microsoft is creating an update to view 1080p via component cables

but according to the article, very few 1080p TVs support component sockets since most are HDMI. And the 360 cant transmit via HDMI since it has no HDMI sockets

So basically, it is possible for the 360 to produce a 1080p image, but it has no actual means to do so since it has no HDMI sockets

way to go microsoft!

The setup will or should be the same as the cable that you have plugged in the back of the 360,but instead of the HD component cable should be a HDMI connection and hopeffuly a optical connection for sound. If the sound will only come from the HDMI then alot of people are out of luck if there surround system doesn't support HDMI, then the HDMI cable will be useless.