{"id":10957,"date":"2011-03-30T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"microsoft-prepping-updated-disc-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/10957-microsoft-prepping-updated-disc-format","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft prepping \u201cupdated disc format\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft HQ has put out an open call to US gamers to  sign up for a preview program launching sometime soon to test an &ldquo;updated Xbox  360 disc format&rdquo;. They&rsquo;re also chucking in a free copy of Halo: Reach and &ldquo;other  possible rewards&rdquo; to all successful applications.<\/p>\n<div class=\"msg Nth\">According to a post  over on Major Nelson&rsquo;s blog, &ldquo;This is an important update as we continually  strive to improve our products and we could not do so without the help of our  great Xbox community&rdquo;, and they&rsquo;re looking to include &ldquo;multiple thousands of  participants&rdquo;, although no further information is provided. The dirty  tease.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, speculation is pretty hot just now. Currently, the Xbox  disc format is a standard dual-layer DVD, theoretically capable of holding  between 8.5 and 8.7 GB, but locked at around 7 GB for game data. Over on the  PS3, of course, the console&rsquo;s proprietary Blu-ray discs hold an immense 50 GB of  data, supplying devs with much more space to play with.<\/p>\n<p>Or it could just  be some lame new security protocol.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preview progam launching Stateside<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}