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Xbox 360 Pros Now Shipping With HDMI Ports

August 8th, 2007 posted by Artis Oracle in Rumors / Speculation

Microsoft confirmed earlier today that Xbox 360 Pro consoles will now ship with an HDMI out port. A Microsoft employee said that this will not affect the change over to the 65nm process, as the internal parts of the 360 are constantly being tweaked. Back on topic, the addition of the HDMI port seems to be on Xbox 360s manufactured in and after this past July - the picture in the source post has a manufacture date of July 4th on it. It will still retail for the recently-lowered price of $349.99 US. I guess we should have gathered some sort of conclusion that an HDMI port would be added on to the non-Elite 360 at some point given the recent special consoles - Halo 3 and Simpson’s Movie consoles - both are pro Xbox 360s with HDMI ports.

An HDMI port on a 360 console was previously unavailable until last April when Microsoft released a third Xbox 360 SKU, the Xbox 360 Elite. The Elite is an Xbox 360 with a 120 GB HDD and an HDMI out port with a black matte finish, as opposed to the other two SKU’s white finishes. HDMI stands for High Definition Multimedia Interface, and is a type of connector that transmits digital signals (both audio and video in one cable) providing the highest quality picture possible on modern televisions.

8 / August / 2007 

  • 1. Link  |  August 8th, 2007 at 10:10 pm

    I think this is huge advantage for the consumer. The 360 Elite’s only advantage now is the hard drive, which really isn’t all that significant - certainly not worth the $80 difference between the two SKUs.

  • 2. Ąrtis �racle  |  August 9th, 2007 at 3:05 pm

    In my opinion, if Microsoft really wants to tout the Elite as the ultimate multimedia console, they could have done a lot more with the it to make it really ‘elite’. A lack of an internal HD-DVD drive, among other things, is inexcusable for a piece of hardware that’s supposed to be an ultimate multimedia device.

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