Xbox 360 HD DVD drive now in black

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We just got some goodies on our team: Xbox 360 HD DVD drives in black! These limited-edition drives were made especially for those of us who helped work on the product, and come along with a black remote control.

All I need now is an Xbox 360 at home to plug it into and I'll be set! (It's no use to me at work as retail drives don't work on Xbox development kits).

Different teams at Microsoft give different things to team members as "Ship-It" awards, and how good they are depends on the coolness of the team and the coolness of the product. Fortunately our team is cool in both regards. My old team (Visual C#) once gave us empty cardboard boxes of the product as a Ship-It award. Not-very-cool-at-all.

Unlike some other Microsoft-internal goodies, we are permitted to sell these, so if you want one you might be lucky and a co-worker could put one on eBay. Or not.

[Update 4/20/07: the rules have changed and in fact we are not allowed to sell these after all]

Comments

  • Anonymous
    April 09, 2007
    Shame on you for not having a 360 at home already!!

  • Anonymous
    May 19, 2007
    I am a hrdcore gamer and specifically 360 gamer. I am trying to get ahold of a black 360 hd player can you tell me how or when it will be available with the remote?

  • Anonymous
    June 04, 2007
    Hey hows it going?  I just bought an xbox elite system and was wondering if you had any more info on the black hd dvd drive.  Any info would be great and if you change your mind about selling it let me know.  Thanks

  • Anonymous
    June 04, 2007
    Jamie: We are no longer allowed to sell them, though I never wanted to sell mine anyway. Look on Ebay: you can buy skins that turn the white drives into black drives for <$20. No idea of the quality, but worth checking out.

  • Anonymous
    July 30, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    December 19, 2007
    wher can i get the Xbox 360 HD DVD drive in black

  • Anonymous
    December 20, 2007
    deano: Like I already said: buy a skin on eBay.

  • Anonymous
    December 29, 2007
    DansDecals.com has the black skin ti match the elite for 14 bucks....

  • Anonymous
    February 28, 2008
    hey i wanna buy the black hd dvd player and i wanted to know if Microsoft will sell it even though they stopped making them anymore and if you know at all and if there was someway where i could get one reply back @ cvlboi89@gmail.com

  • Anonymous
    February 28, 2008
    ITz: As I said above, buy a black skin on eBay.

  • Anonymous
    April 18, 2008
    How many were produced for the team?

  • Anonymous
    April 21, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    April 21, 2008
    I don't know the exact numbers, but I would guess a couple of hundred max. Mikkel: the number you quoted was on my black drive but also on my white one: I think its a part number. The other number is the serial #, if you post yours I'll see if its near mine.

  • Anonymous
    April 21, 2008
    Ok Andy, thanks:-) I'll post it when getting back from work;-)

  • Anonymous
    April 22, 2008
    Okay, have checked now, and my Serial is: 015701770520 Thanks yet again for your time:-)

  • Anonymous
    April 22, 2008
    Thanks, for the quick response. I was also one of the lucky ones to get my hands on a black drive. Love the Black remote! Looks real slick! Hoping that one day it will be worth lots as they will become an antique and how few were produced. I sure wish that HD DVD was sucessful! Thanks for the HDDVD ride! re

  • Anonymous
    April 22, 2008
    Mikkel, your number is pretty different to mine, but I don't know if that means anything or not, sorry. If it looks cool, who cares, right? If it came with King Kong then it is NOT an employee drive: the movies were pulled from our ones.

  • Anonymous
    April 22, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    April 23, 2008
    The cardboard is the same for all drives I think, so the holder thingie is where a disc would go, yes. Black drives were never released to the public, correct.

  • Anonymous
    April 23, 2008
    Great, then I must conclude that it's authentic;-)

  • Anonymous
    June 28, 2010
    I'd like to test it out because I love gaming and want style also. So I bought a silicone skin for my xbox but it looks HIDEOUS. It takes away from the look of the console, so I got rid of it.

  • Anonymous
    September 25, 2012
    I have one of these on eBay right now. Serial # 015690770520. The 690 part of the # is only 11 units different from Mikkel Petersen's.