Can a firmware update make it into Blue-Ray (just in case)? ;)

wait...I swear the post said something about "firmware" in it when I commented...what sorcery is this?

How exactly can you improve it?

I may be wrong on this, but I thought the drive it self was just the drive, bare-bones, the rest is done by the 360 itself right (Features, etc)?

One problem is the fact it doesn't keep track of where you are in a movie if you exit to the dashboard. Even regular DVD players remember your play location if you exit to the main menu, seems like a pretty simple feature. Seems like they could do this in an update, but they haven't yet to my knowledge. Someone please tell me I'm wrong.

The HD DVD player is loud? I think it's way less noisy than the DVD player in the Xbox 360. (Though I guess that's not saying much!)

I sold mine because it was too loud to watch movies. When I had this thing and the 360 going I could hear noise over the 5.1! very unenjoyable.
They could make it less lame looking.
They could make it like a laptop drive that ran off of USB power.
They could make it thin so it fit on top of the xbox, basically making the unit thicker...
They could make it wider and add a big hard drive so you would also have expansion...
It could be quieter.
These things would probably add to the cost though. I would just make a real elite with it built in. A hd-dvd/wi-fi/no 3 rings/quiet setup would crush sony into little pieces. At any price.