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Charlie Owen, a former Media Center team member wrote a post this week about Media Center expanding its marketplace, specifically going from the current enthusiast market to a more mainstream market . Charlie analysis comes to the pretty simple answer...
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Microsoft has officially dropped the price of all Xbox 360 SKUs. The Arcade is now officially $200, or rather still the best value for an Extender if you can live without additional file format support and live with the fact that it has a fan. Read more...
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I’ve gotten a fair amount of reaction to the various articles I’ve posted on Microsoft and Blu-ray, and it still seems the overall consensus on the web is that Microsoft will fall head over heels for Blu-ray in their products. I want to preface this post...
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CES just started a few hours ago, but I already feel like it can start being wrapped up. This years show just hasn’t had the pop it needed, and it all started with Microsoft’s lackluster keynote. Unlike pervious years, fancy demos of new products and...
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Media Center was basically a no show, not too much of a shock for me. The only real Media Center is that Samsung will be supporting Extender’s in the future. Other than that, Microsoft re-announced that HP will be shipping their MediaSmart HDTVs with...
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The new Xbox 360 Dashboard gets MPEG-4 ASP support (DviX/Xvid) , but yet again the Extender portion of the Xbox 360 gets nothing. People don’t seem to be too happy about this , yet again. Microsoft didn’t take any hint from my advice , but that’s really...
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Netflix posted a survey online for a few customers, and from the looks of the questions Netflix might be considering bring downloads to the Xbox 360 . Might be in addition to the rumored Netflix STB or this might be there main goal, or none of the above...
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New console includes five games, wireless controller and storage to save games — all for the incredible value of $279.99 REDMOND, Wash. — Oct. 22, 2007 — Just in time for holiday, Microsoft Corp. today released a new Xbox 360 ® console that delivers games...
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Joe Belfiore, Corporate Vice President of the Entertainment and Devices eHome Division at Microsoft was nice enough to directly address some of my concerns about v2 Extenders . He stressed that they want to make “ media available in every room, with support...
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How many times have I talked about this one . Now that v2 Extenders will ship with MPEG-4 support , when/if the Xbox 360 Extender will get the same in the question (and when will the Dashboard get ASP support)? This really isn’t that hard of a concept;...
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Crestron & Microsoft to Take Media-Centric Automation to ‘Whole New Level’ Vista Performance and Reliability Pack & Vista Compatibility and Reliability Pack Leaked? Xbox 360 Getting a Price Cut! Cross Posted from Chris Lanier's Blog at http:/...
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Only problem? The ad is horrible. . Where to start with this one. First of all, congrats to Microsoft for finally starting to market Media Center. My first advice, don’t give up. I’m just going to ramble here, because there is a lot to say. The ad is...
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Spring Update for Xbox 360 | Among the new features to the Xbox 360 with the Spring Update is this little jewel below. H.264 video support: Up to 10 Mbps, Baseline, Main, and High (up to level 4.1) Profiles with 2 channel AAC LC and Main Profiles. Added...
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Lots of questions and comments about the new Xbox 360 Elite, so here is a run down with some answers. Question: is it quiet? It’s said to be the exact same hardware as the Core and Premium systems. If you consider them to be quiet, then yes the Elite...
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