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thinking of buying one.
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jeray
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23. April 2006 @ 04:01 |
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i've thought of buying just a toshiba hd-dvd player but after hearing the 360 is planning on coming out with there hd drive i'm thinking of buying it.anyone have any idea how much the drive will cost?i've been reading alot of posts and it sounds like everyone is pretty happy with there 360.
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rabbity
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23. April 2006 @ 04:07 |
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yh i might get the drive, but only for the right price, if i was to gues i would say about 100 dollars, b/c any more than that and it would basically make it more expensive then even the ps3.
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jeray
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23. April 2006 @ 04:16 |
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i never had the xbox.always a ps guy.i was on the xbox site,what do you have to have?do you have to get a hard drive instead of memory card to save games?is the windows media cool?i like the idea of putting songs on it.they should be ready if not already to release them again.i look for the ps3 to cost a little more than expected.the stand alone blue ray players are going for @$1000.thanks for the help.
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cmk0121
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23. April 2006 @ 05:04 |
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yes the window media is cool,u dont have to have the hard drive but it is STRONGLY reccommended being as some of the videos,demos,trailers and all that take up a lot of space that the memory card just cant handle. if you want to rip songs u have to have the hard drive so its a definite go for that.in case you do get one keep it elevated off the ground or standing up to allow air circulation, if not you could run into a freezing problem and you'll think less of the system which isnt good becasue it is a solid system with great graphics and some cool games out at the time.xbox live is great,hence ps3 is progressing forward off MS genius ideas and trying to mimic what MS has so brilliantly done.
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jeray
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23. April 2006 @ 06:02 |
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they don't have an hdmi output?if they do come out with an external hd drive that'll be interesting.maybe microsoft jumped the gun a bit.
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rabbity
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23. April 2006 @ 06:17 |
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ok i do not know what you mean ther but, about the freezing problems , you probably will not get them anymore with thie new batch of xbox 360's and just incase you want to be safe then keep your xbox 360 like this -----------------, horizontall so that all the hot air comeing out the back goes straight up into the air instead of back in.
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RixterV6
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23. April 2006 @ 06:26 |
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What's a HD Drive?
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rabbity
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23. April 2006 @ 07:01 |
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storage device.
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cmk0121
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23. April 2006 @ 07:11 |
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the xbox 360's are freezing in some cases thats what i meant in that one part. if you keep them elevated from ivce seen and hezard you will def not have a problem. ive been told opposite and to keep it upright becasue air gets trapped under the system if its laying down like that. just what ive been told by every store that seels it,eb,gamestop and all
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jeray
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23. April 2006 @ 07:22 |
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the freezing i thought was a glitch in the first batch.just like anything else you have to ventilate it.my laptop freezes once in a while.i seen something on the xbox site,a link to a cooling system to go under them.i don't know alot of details maybe usb powered like for laptops. the hd drive i was talking about was in high def dvd.the ps3 will support blue ray and there is talk about the xbox supporting hd dvds.they may release an external drive to upgrade this.one more quick quest. would anyone buy one(bundle) off ebay?i just sold some things and my account has some $ in it.just wanting another opinion.thanks.
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23. April 2006 @ 12:31 |
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can someone please link to these posts about the drive?
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jeray
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23. April 2006 @ 16:22 |
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heres an article i found.its long but has alot of info.
Microsoft to offer HD-DVD drive as Xbox 360 accessory
By Mike Snider, USA TODAY
LAS VEGAS ? In addition to leading the way in next-generation gaming, Microsoft is preparing to take a bigger stake in the high definition video wars. Later this year, Microsoft plans to offer an external HD-DVD drive as an accessory for its new Xbox 360, chairman Bill Gates announced Wednesday. No specifics such as price or release date were given.
The announcement widens the divide between Microsoft, which has supported the HD-DVD format, and Sony, which is helping develop the competing Blu-ray Disc high-def format that will be used in the coming PlayStation 3.
Microsoft beat Sony to market with its new Xbox 360, but it remains to be seen which high-def format will arrive in stores first. In announcements at the Consumer Electronics Show, both camps are targeting spring for the release of new players and PC drives that play the new discs.
The new discs are essentially DVDs on steroids. Both formats use blue lasers, instead of DVD's red one, to read more tightly packed data stored on the discs. They will also read current DVDs.
But there are differences: HD-DVD supporters, including Toshiba and Universal, tout the less expensive production shift. The Blu-ray group, which includes most electronics companies and major studios, boasts that its capacity is 50 Gigabytes vs. HD-DVD's 30 GB. (A current DVD holds 9.4 GB at most.)
And Blu-Ray's interactive features are based on Sun Microsystem's Java, while HD-DVD uses iHD, developed by Microsoft and Toshiba.
As for the Xbox 360, Gates says that so far, "demand far exceeded supply. And so we'll actually have shipped a pretty phenomenal number, over 5 million, before anyone else comes into the market. Then (Sony will) have a year where they're supply constrained most likely, unless the thing is a complete flop. I mean, every videogame that does decent at all is supply constrained for its first year. And so the first year that both we and they will not be supply constrained will actually be 2007."
Microsoft has not announced how many Xbox 360s have been shipped so far, but analysts put the figure at just over 1 million worldwide. Many customers who put down deposits on a system in the fall have yet to receive one.
Microsoft's goal remains to have shipped as many as 5.5 million by the end of June.
Whether or not a gamer has an Xbox 360 yet, Microsoft's announcement that it will release an HD-DVD add-on drive "will introduce a lot of concern on the part of consumers. It's going to make some quite skittish," says Geoff Keighley, a host on the G4TV game network and columnist for the Official Xbox Magazine. "I can't imagine how it's going to look elegant especially after Microsoft has spent so much time the last year on the look of the Xbox 360. And are people going to create games for HD-DVD? Is [Microsoft's drive] going to be cheaper to buy than other HD-DVD drives? They are not saying and it raises questions."
Those who have gotten an Xbox 360 are very likely to either have an HDTV or have one on their wish list. (All Xbox 360 games must support high-def video and will look strikingly more realistic on an HDTV.)
An independent survey of Xbox 360 owners found that 10% of HDTV owners bought their high-def set at the same time they bought an Xbox 360.
Sixty percent of Xbox 360 owners also have an HDTV ? that's compared to nearly 20% of households that have a digital TV (some of which display video of less quality than full HD).
Overall, 90% of Xbox 360 owners either own or intend to buy an HDTV in the next six months.
The Xbox 360-HDTV relationship is "even higher than I think we thought it would be," says Microsoft's Peter Moore. "We obviously made a big push that the 360 makes high-definition entertainment. That has been foremost in our message and consumers who made all the pre-orders knew that in particular. It's given them plenty of time to prepare for (HDTV)."
In-store kiosks with Xbox 360s connected to Samsung high-definition displays have caught consumers' eyes, too, Moore says. "I think gamers walked in, saw those and it really opened their eyes to what HD means."
Best Buy's Mike Vitelli calls the 360 "one of the first pieces of high-definition content that is personal. You can play games in high-def whenever you want."
Another part of Microsoft's Xbox 360 strategy was to increase online participation. To that goal, Microsoft included free connectivity to its Xbox Live service with each new system and consumers can upgrade to a richer Xbox Live Gold service for $50.
More than half of all Xbox 360s sold so far have connected to Xbox Live, a much higher rate than the 1 in 10 Xboxs that connected.
Gamers are spending more time online, too, Moore says. On Xbox, the average Xbox Live member spent 10 hours a week online. On Xbox 360, the average user is currently spending more than 60 hours a week on Xbox Live.
The average number of gaming sessions on Xbox Live on Xbox 360 is currently at 25 a week, which is up dramatically from the average of 6 sessions a week on the original Xbox.
Once online, Xbox 360 users have explored the new service. More than 60% of users have downloaded content such as items to customize their desktop (interface) from the new Xbox Live Marketplace. And more than 40% have downloaded and played games from the new Xbox Live Arcade. "We have broken down the intimidation factor of online gaming," Moore added.
Moving forward, Microsoft expects to be able to leverage its online audience, which is made up primarily of 18-to-34-year-old males. "Xbox Live delivers that demographic that cinema and TV are finding it very hard to get to," he says.
A typical Xbox Live online audience amounts to 2.3 to 2.4 Nielsen ratings, or 2 million-plus connected homes, he says.
Movie studios, for instance, are making trailers available in high-definition over Xbox Live. "They see it as a distribution channel for programming."
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23. April 2006 @ 16:25 |
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awsome Jeray......nice work :-)
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24. April 2006 @ 06:17 |
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i heard the 360 wont load some original games why not
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24. April 2006 @ 12:16 |
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original xbox titles? because they're not on the backward compatability list.
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spyderbob
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30. April 2006 @ 11:54 |
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but all that is being updated as we speak ...they'll soon have all the games on the backwards compatibility list...it'll just take time
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