Xbox 360Crucible and I were just discussing Xbox360 and its connections to the tele. The 360, of course, will not be available here in Australia until March, so everything's just hearsay around here.

Anyway, the gist of our conversation involved the annoncement that Microsoft will be releasing an HD-DVD add-on for the 360 later this year, and the fact that HD-DVD will down-convert to a standard-definition signal unless you use DVI or HDMI.

Now, the down-conversion "feature" is supposedly an opt-in thing, but I'm guessing that HD-DVDs without said feature will be few and far-between. So where does that leave Xbox users? Surely there's no point buying the HD-DVD upgrade if all you can do is watch movies at standard definition?

Or does Microsoft have a way around this? Can the 360 output a digital video signal?