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WMV. x264, MP4/MOV can be streamed using WMP11 or Zune software. From what I have heard it does not work with MCE with MP4. I have not tried it yet. Also you can watch WMV and MP4/MOV from a USB device. MP4 have to be encoded in [MPEG4 AVC (Nero AVC, x264, Quick Time AVC, MainConcept AVC, Sorensen AVC ...)] Any one buy the Gettin' Busy Pack for Crackdown? I have it and love it. If anyone wants to try it before you buy it let me know and I'll send you a game invite.

I am enjoying my folder view for videos and mp4/mov support from spring update. It is nice you can stream and play off of USB device. I might have to get some points to buy Double Dragon.

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I going to wait to see if the 65nm versions will be better. I am on my 2nd Xbox 360. I had NES, SNES, PS2, PSP, N64 and Xbox 1. None of the other systems I own have broken. I got my NES in 1988 and it still works. Even though I like my 360, I think in some aspects it was designed poorly. I have seen this a lot in the Auto business. Not all design flaws effect everyone the same. Even the Elite motherboard shows MS make some changes hopefully for the better. Microsoft changed the warrenty from 90 days to a year and now do free shipping. That to me shows they F***ed up.

Yes and the quality is ok. The Tailfins skull stickers as little big. I had to trim mines.

In Robotech in episode 73 Sandstorm Rand had a dream. In that dream they had to slay a dragon to save Marlene. The characters and mecha had knifes and swords. Edit: Oops got it in late.

Yeah that is a rip off.

Spring update coming May 7. Source link. Instant Messaging Comes to Xbox 360 Redmond , Washington —Your Xbox Live® friends list is about to get a whole lot bigger. Microsoft Corp. today announced the launch of Windows Live™ Messenger on Xbox 360™, connecting friends across Xbox 360 consoles, Microsoft® Windows®-based PCs and Windows Mobile®-powered devices. With this update to Xbox 360, friends and families can easily connect and chat directly from their television using Windows Live Messenger, a network of more than 20 billion relationships and more than 260 million active accounts. "Xbox Live has really become the largest social network on television." —Jerry Johnson, Microsoft Beginning the week of May 7, 2007, the Xbox 360 Spring Update will provide Xbox 360 owners worldwide with access to Windows Live Messenger features, broadening the communication options on the Xbox Live social network. Connected Experiences Members of the six-million-strong Xbox Live community currently send more than two million text and voice messages a day and can now use Windows Live Messenger to text chat with up to six people on their contact list at one time, while playing games, listening to music, or watching movies. Text chat adds to the variety of options friends and families already have to communicate with on Xbox Live, including voice and video chat. Current relationships on Windows Live Messenger and Xbox Live will be unified on Xbox 360 and users will see at a glance if their existing friends on Windows Live Messenger have gamertags, instantly expanding the breadth of connected experiences they can share online. "Bringing the largest IM community in the world, Windows Live Messenger, to Xbox 360 makes sense, as Xbox Live has really become the largest social network on television," said Jerry Johnson, product unit manager of Xbox Live at Microsoft. "For our growing community of six million on Xbox Live, using Xbox 360 is a very social, connected experience. They are using Xbox 360 to play games, music, and movies while simultaneously communicating with one another through video, voice, and text chat. With this announcement we are simultaneously expanding the access of Xbox Live users to existing friends and family while introducing Windows Live Messenger users to the benefits of Xbox 360." Beginning the week of May 7, users of Windows Live Messenger on Xbox 360 can text chat using the virtual keyboard accessible on Xbox 360, or by connecting a USB keyboard to the console. This summer Microsoft will launch a QWERTY text-input device, a new accessory that will connect directly into the Xbox 360 controller to support text and instant messaging. Other New Features Beyond Windows Live Messenger, the Spring Update for Xbox 360 includes hundreds of new features and enhancements including: * A richer Achievement notification pop-up will showcase the name of the unlocked Achievement and the gamerscore value without needing to leave the game to check the Achievements list. * Enhanced family settings features for Xbox Live communications enable different defaults for video chat and voice chat. * A new Xbox Live Marketplace blade lets Xbox Live members access the content they seek—whether it is game content or TV shows and movies (available in the United States)—from one place on Xbox Live. * Updates to Xbox Live Arcade allow owners to quickly see which Xbox Live Arcade games their friends are playing and join in the fun. Xbox Live members can also compare progress of leaderboard scores and Achievements directly with all friends on their friends list. Expanded "Tell a Friend" capabilities make it easier than ever to boast about Achievements and high scores. * Expanded "Tell a Friend" capabilities make it easier than ever to boast about Achievements and high scores. * A new option in Auto Downloads provides faster access to the entire collection of free, trial-version Xbox Live Arcade games. * New progressive download controls provide easy access to optimal viewing options by letting people fast-forward, rewind, pause and resume as their video is downloaded from Xbox Live Marketplace. * Extension of the background download functionality will allow owners to set their Xbox 360 console to turn off automatically after downloads are complete. The Spring Update is free beginning the week of May 7 and will be easily accessible to every Xbox 360 owner through Xbox Live or on Xbox.com. You may not even notice all the new features, but they are all designed to enhance your Xbox Live experience. Some of the other features in this upgrade include: * The name of game in tray is now displayed in the dashboard. * When the user is in the dashboard and an Xbox 360 game is in the console then the name of the game is displayed in the tray icon of the dashboard. If the user highlights the tray icon then achievements and gamer score are displayed for that game based on the signed in user. Xbox1 games show the name and image of the game. * Integrated support for the new Xbox 360 text input device. Note that this device includes a new wired headset. * Playback progress bar indicates download completion. * Switchable aspect ratio now available during video playback (Auto to Letterbox, Zoom, Stretch, Native). * Player and friends lists now quickly show session presence information for quick identification of users that are joinable. * Added H.264 video support: Up to 10 Mbps peak, Baseline, Main, and High profiles with 2 channel AAC LC. * Added MPEG-4 Part 2 video support: Up to 5 Mbps peak, Simple Profile with 2 channel AAC LC. * Show folder hierarchy for video content played from all devices. * Bookmarks are stored for each video that the user plays remembering the users last location in the file as well as the aspect ratio that the user choose for that file. * Video trick modes (fast forward, rewind, chapter skip) can now be used while downloading Video Marketplace content. * Skip forward and backward functionality has been improved to skip to the next or previous chapter. Each video is divided into 10 “chapters†allowing you to quickly skip around video content. * The information bar that is turned on via the On Screen Display (OSD) now shows you exactly where you are in the playback of the video file. In addition it will also show for Video Marketplace content how much of the file has been downloaded and where the “chapters†exist in the file. * Windows Media protected content (WM-DRM) can now be streamed from the PC to the console. If the WM-DRM license is missing or corrupted then a specific error message is displayed to the user. Bookmarking is also stored for protected content. * When a user selects an item for download from Marketplace then the system will determine if there is sufficient disk space for the item and, if not, will ask the user to delete content on the HDD. The system provides a sorted by size list of videos, game trailers, demos and arcade content to aid the user in the deletion process. The same list of items are also available from within memory so that users can quickly see which items are consuming the most disk space. * The console will block the user who attempts to download content onto a storage device that will never have the capacity to store the item without deducting any points associated with the content item. * The screensaver is disabled when playing photos from any source

These are not for small children that age. The box says ages 14 and up.

From what I have been reading the audio in the Elite is only HDMI 1.2. That means no Dolby TrueHD, which is a lossless multi-channel audio (PCM) format. Also on the output video format, Xbox 360 Elite will perform a handshake and select the appropriate RGB/YUV settings over HDMI. You cannot select it yourself. Another reason to keep my current 360 and skip this one. Microsoft could have been did this. http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=827835

Gears of War update with VGA fix and new versus type. Epic Games has announced that a title update is coming soon as it is going through the certification process. A post in the official Gears of War forums revealed that the update will include a brand new multiplayer gametype: The next title update for Gears of War is currently going through the certification process. We'll have more detail about the update next week but I can tell you that in addition to fixing a whole bunch of glitches, and providing 720p for VGA users running at 1280x1024, it will contain a brand new multiplayer gametype called Annex. Some folks who got to play it a few weeks ago said they think it is our best multiplayer gametype yet but I'll leave it for you fans to decide what you think for yourself when it shows up soon on Xbox Live. More details next week. As to what to expect from this new multiplayer game type, its name suggests it could be a territory based game mode. Epic clarified it will be free.

I wonder if they will be free after awhile like the others.

Good news for me because I want my fastpacks.

I agree the pricing is too high especially for the hard drive alone. I am in no rush for the Elite; my TV does not have a HDMI port. I’ll get the 120 GB drive later maybe. I figured out a way to get my videos to play on a USB drive anyway. I finally got TVersity working and I can now stream most of my videos to the 360 if need be.

I agree, I like building my own also. Vista upgrades versions have a loop hole you can use to install on a blank hard drive. Microsoft knows about it and is not going to fix it. You install without the key as a trial than install again with the key and you are set. Right now I running a dual boot with XP and the retail upgrade of Ultimate and it runs fine. Just added two more drives in my case so I now have 4 drives and 960GB of storage. Two are ide and are used for XP and two are sata in a raid 1 running Ultimate.

That is a mess. I am glad you saw through it. I stay away from anything that says Nigeria. It is the home of many scams. It is sad that many fall from them.

Cool at least I can get the bigger drive separately. I do not have a TV with a HDMI port yet.

Nope. I got the call too. In the call is the option to cancel the preorder.

I just saw 300 and I love this movie. I take it for what it was, entertainment and nothing more.

The looks great. Nice work. I need to finish my Jetfire project.

I think I am going to skip those.

Thanks Graham!! CM's Corporation Legioss & Tread is looking good so far. I can not wait for HLJ to have these on preorder.

Sorry to here about that. I am on my second system. The first died after 8 months but I was having issues before then that Microsoft support could not help me with. I had the EB Games warranty and just took it back and got a new one. I have never had a system crap out on me before. Now the issues I had with the old one I do not have with this one like using the wireless headset with a wireless controller. I had to hook up a wired controller just to use the wireless headset.

I would say Jetfire is my favorite than Ramjet. His wings do not get on the way of his gun poses like Skywarp and Starscream. I have painted two of my Jetfires to look more like the comic. Having black missiles makes a difference.

You should be able to just wipe and reapply if you want to or just put some new compound on top. Just make sure it is not too much and the heat sink is on real tight. I know I got compound all over the place because my heat sink was a pain to put in.