Posts Tagged ‘360’

Zune-Xbox 360 Storage Rumor Poorly Woven

There’s a rumor spreading like wildfire across the web that the Zune will be used as a secondary hard drive for game and content purchases on the Xbox 360.
I’ll outline why it’s a bogus rumor.
See, the rumor started because of a survey. Essentially, the user was asked what they connected to their Xbox 360. One [...]

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Xbox 360 Mediaroom IPTV: Just One Problem

A year later, we still don’t have Xbox 360 Mediaroom (Microsoft’s version of IPTV). For the second CES keynote, Microsoft has touted the feature, spotlighting British Telecom as the first to roll of the feature… just not right now.
But, perpetual delay is not the problem with Xbox 360 IPTV (for me, at least). The problem [...]

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Codec Day… DivX for Windows 6.8

Seems to be a codec-filled day… First Xbox 360 adds DivX, then Adobe Flash adds H.264… now DivX has updated DivX for Windows to version 6.8. Run the Check for Updates… app in the DivX menu to grab it if you’ve already installed.

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Xbox Update & Crash

So, I updated at 2:30 AM (hey, I was up… no, I don’t stay up for Xbox Live updates). And, sure enough, my tester bones were ready to ask the question “how fast can Christopher crash the new Xbox update?”
And the answer? Well, considering there’s a blog post… it shouldn’t surprise you that it didn’t [...]

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Privacy Alert: Xbox 360 Update Reveals Friends

One thing that irks me, is when social networking features change privacy settings without notice. Microsoft has done some campaigns to alert users, but honestly, they should prompt post-update if they want to do these kind of things…
What are they doing? The December Xbox 360 Update, set to be released at 2 AM Pacific tomorrow, [...]

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