Endgadget is (as well as tons of other sites) reporting that MS is in high level talks w/Sony about licencing the BR technology.

Where it gets a little fuzzy is that some sites are suggesting that MS may release an integrated BR player. I'm not buying that for a minute. I do think that an add-on player is in the works, but no way there will be an integrated player.

No mention of any hardware related playback issues brought up by Sir T in another thread, so I can't comment on those.

Heres the rather short article:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ca6017de-e...nclick_check=1