At the Tokyo Game Conference Microsoft announced their HD-DVD addon drive will be available in Japan on November 17th for about $200US. That's a killer price for an HD-DVD player. Here's hoping that we'll see that price here in the US.

However, I had to wonder why I would want to have that device. We don't watch many DVD's since we've got a new RAVE Movie Theatre, Comcast's VoD library, and an HD-DVR recording all kinds of content.

Will game developers start shipping their games on HD-DVD discs instead of DVD's? I think in time they will. An HD-DVD disc holds more data which means the game devs can fit all kinds of pre-rendered HD content on the HD-DVD disc whereas they'll have to budget that kind of content on a DVD disc.