Microsoft Adds New Video Chip to Xbox

[tigerbait]

not sure if this has been posted... forgive me if so

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A partner of software giant Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - News) on Wednesday unveiled a new video chip for the Xbox video game console in a move aimed at reducing the machine's cost.
Campbell, California-based Focus Enhancements Inc. (NasdaqSC:FCSE - News) said it has developed a new chip for the console, which made its debut in the United States last November, that processes video for television.
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Hamilton said Focus's chip is "several dollars cheaper" than what Microsoft is using now to convert video from the console's graphics chip to a format suitable for TV sets.

He also said the chip is planned for use on a new motherboard for the console, rather than the one Microsoft has been using.

"It's basically a cost-reduced board," Hamilton said.


I wonder if they new motherboard is going to be redesigned so that the current modchips will not be able to work.

 

[diskop]

Definete possibility. Since sony did that with Playstation 1. I would like them to make DVD, SVCD and Divx support standard however

 

[Mutilator]

Originally posted by: tigerbait
I wonder if they new motherboard is going to be redesigned so that the current modchips will not be able to work.

Ofcourse.

 

[MrCodeDude]

Originally posted by: Mutilator

Originally posted by: tigerbait
I wonder if they new motherboard is going to be redesigned so that the current modchips will not be able to work.

Ofcourse.

OH NOES!!
-- mrcodedude

 

They changed the security keys a month or so ago, and scrapped all the old chips. This was to counter what the guy at MIT found out.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=4735

I think mod chips died back then.

<-- Thinking of getting a PS2 this weekend.

 

[ElFenix]

better buy a succubox now

 

[Pooteh]

like the new one won't be cracked yea right

 

[Maverick]

lol my first thought on this was not that they're doing it to be cost effective...its obviously to combat the growing number of modchips...they just can't come out and say it

 

[SagaLore]

what is a modchip and what does it do?