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Sony, Microsoft Discuss Blu-ray for Xbox 360

ft: according to a senior executive, Sony is in talks with console rival Microsoft about offering a Blu-ray drive for the Xbox 360.

If Xbox 360 can have the Blu-ray drive in its next player, it can make a different in gaming compititive world which can allow Xbox 360 be a good rival with PS3.

On Blu-ray pricing, Mr Glasgow expects prices of players to drop to as low as $299 by the end of the year. They currently cost $399 and higher. He feels the price of a player could fall to about $200 by the end of 2009.

The prices of Blu-ray players are not expected to fall as precipitously as they did with regular DVD players. The Blu-ray Association, the group controlling the standard, has yet to license it to Chinese manufacturers, who would be expected to drive down prices.