Xbox 360: Friday, November 4th 2005

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UNCjigga

UNCjigga

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I thought ATI just said they will have R520 boards on store shelves in August?
 
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Gravity

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I guesss I came late to the game...only got an xb0x and mod chip in Jan......I love it. I've seen the demo flics of the 360 and figure I'll own one as soon as the mod chips are avail.
 
Queasy

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Originally posted by: mrrman
get those mod chips ready...
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Sounds like you may not need to do any modding if you plan on just using it as a media player. The 360 is supposed to be able to stream pictures and music off any WinXP machine on your home network and stream video, music, and pictures off any WinXP MCE machine.

Supposed to mind you. I'll be interested to see how it is actually pulled off.
 
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shuan24

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where did you read that from queasy? that would be quite interesting if it actually worked.
 
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Originally posted by: shuan24
where did you read that from queasy? that would be quite interesting if it actually worked.
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It's been around. There was an interview with one of the guys posted recently. I'll try and find it.

edit: Here it is
Jeff: Before I launch Checkers, there's one other key area of this Dashboard I'd like to show you. That's the Media Blade. I know that's some of the stuff that really excites you.

The Media Blade is one of those places you go for the out-of-game digital experiences we talked about. The key thing that I think the Media Blade is going to help Xbox 360 accomplish is to really get out there and speak to a broader audience. And I'm going to include myself in this audience, and my wife and kids. We're not hard core gamers. We do love to play. But my daughter doesn't get to play Halo 2; she's only 5 years old. I don't want her playing Halo 2. In fact, she thinks the Covenant guys are dragons, and she tells me not to hurt the dragons. She thinks they're friendly.

The Media Blade is the place you can go to experience connected digital entertainment experiences without any of that hard core competitive stuff. Obviously, we've got great support for music and photos here. Music can be ripped directly from a CD to the Xbox 360, but that's actually not the optimal scenario. The optimal scenario is when you've already got your library of music ripped to your PC. Or, you're a digital photographer and you've already got a photo library built up on your PC.

On any Windows XP PC, on a home network with Xbox 360, the 360 will connect to that XP PC and stream, wired or wirelessly, all of that music and all of those photos over to the console.

Paul: What do you have to do on the XP PC to make that work? Is this Windows Media Connect?

Jeff: Yes. And you've already got it if you've got Automatic Updates enabled. Windows Media Connect exposes the music and photos from that PC. Xbox 360 is a Windows Media Connect client.

If you have a Media Center PC, that takes it to an entirely new level, because you're remoting that entire Media Center experience--the enhanced music, the enhanced photos, the live and digitally recorded television--to the 360. But the cool thing is, when you're experiencing that through Xbox 360, from Media Center, or from an XP PC, you're connected to the gaming crowd, your list of friends. You can send and receive invites and bring up those messages, and bring up the Xbox Live Marketplace. You still have access to all of that stuff.
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prblem is, just because its launched on nov 4th, doesnt mean there will be a large supply of them. my local eb games is only getting a first shipment of 9 360's
 
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Originally posted by: TheGeek
prblem is, just because its launched on nov 4th, doesnt mean there will be a large supply of them. my local eb games is only getting a first shipment of 9 360's
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Really? the three eb games that I pre-ordered from all said that their initial allotment was around 20.
 
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bernse

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Originally posted by: Queasy
Originally posted by: TheGeek
prblem is, just because its launched on nov 4th, doesnt mean there will be a large supply of them. my local eb games is only getting a first shipment of 9 360's
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Really? the three eb games that I pre-ordered from all said that their initial allotment was around 20.
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How do they even know that yet?
 
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Queasy

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Originally posted by: bernse
Originally posted by: Queasy
Originally posted by: TheGeek
prblem is, just because its launched on nov 4th, doesnt mean there will be a large supply of them. my local eb games is only getting a first shipment of 9 360's
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Really? the three eb games that I pre-ordered from all said that their initial allotment was around 20.
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How do they even know that yet?
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Corporate told them. At least that's what they said in our conversation(s)
 
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thegimp03

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Ooh, me too. Plus being 3/4 of the way done with CPA materials by then, guess it'll be time to bust some games. :D
 
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