Comments on: CES: Microsoft announcements leaked

By: Vol

Vol — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:30:31 +0000

As far as transferring data from your hard drive, the only thing that is worth transferring will be your game saves. Demos and TV shows could or would have to be downloaded again. Hopefully, MS will come up with a solution to upload those.

By: Toxic

Toxic — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:50:12 +0000

10.4 million 360 owners…That’s all I care about….more people to play Rainbow Six Vegas against

By: K3vin

K3vin — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:05:25 +0000

Interestingly the WinSupersite has the details that the ipTV part of this will only work with this new v2 Xbox 360, not with the ones we have at them moment, its reads like there is extra hardware in the new Xbox for this to be enabled.

By: El $corpio

El $corpio — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 10:49:16 +0000

Damn this news is great…Microsoft keep it coming!

By: Curry

Curry — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 10:34:42 +0000

Not really, there’s a list on MS’ site and half are US.

By: Fu510n

Fu510n — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 08:27:59 +0000

Youtube Mirror:

(Divided into 10 minute Segments)

Part 1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wiwnbr-Lxrc

Part 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JME87BrGwgA

Part 3:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnf-uty4w58

Part 4:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbBTdUPTY8I

Part 5:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvHyLoZgp5w

Part 6:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_5BbThlx9U

Part 7:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mbEeyWmJ3s

Part 8:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POzkyoamgiE

By: Clayj

Clayj — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 07:11:45 +0000

One thing Major Nelson mentioned about this: Your “local provider” will have to offer this service. I am assuming that means your cable company or DSL provider… can you imagine the bandwidth that a second cable lineup (IPTV + the normal one) will consume?

By: Drew

Drew — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 04:14:02 +0000

I’m interested in IPTV the most. I need more details on how exactly it’ll work, but I could definitely see myself utilizing that in the future.

By: RECK1N

RECK1N — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 04:10:54 +0000

Hmm yeah I just watched the keynote, no mention of HDMI or 120GB HDD. Maybe later on in CES perhaps?

By: Clayj

Clayj — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 03:56:12 +0000

Guess you missed where the companies that are currently supporting IPTV are all OUTSIDE of the US.

By: InsaneBastard

InsaneBastard — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 03:52:12 +0000

US only with this as well I guess

By: Clayj

Clayj — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 03:48:45 +0000

Hrm… no word from Robbie Bach about HDMI or bigger HDs on the 360. Could just be that that’s not “big picture” enough for a keynote address…

By: Halcyon07

Halcyon07 — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 03:47:40 +0000

No word of a “Give us your old one and a 100 bucks and we’ll give you the new model” plan, huh..?

By: Curry

Curry — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 03:10:57 +0000

No, VGA can do all that HDMI can do, mainly 1080p resolution. There is no technical reason why the first revision would not be able to support 120GB drives. Hell, devkits and debugkits have been equipped with 80GB drives since the first release.

The reason HDMI was left out on first boxes is that the HDMI 1.3 standard, which increases the bandwidth to a level that supports 1080p, wasn’t finalized until June 22nd 2006. If Microsoft wanted to include HDMI and 1080p they would’ve had to wait until then, and then finish the machine. Xbox 360 would’ve been released in October 2006 at best.

Some other console waited, look what good it did them

By: wakeboard

wakeboard — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 03:04:14 +0000

ok how much does it cost???????????
i got 5 bucks what can that get me?

By: J1980

J1980 — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 02:59:52 +0000

im fucking irritated. The xbox360 is the worlds first HD gaming machine and they leave out HDMI on the first xbox360’s. I bet there’ll be some feature that you can’t use unless the HDMI cable is plugged in- and 120gb harddrives only usable on the new machine

By: Clayj

Clayj — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 02:28:43 +0000

I have two 360s, and one of them is connected to a TV that has HDMI support… but I’m already using VGA there, so HDMI support is kind of a “meh” for me. Glad they’re adding it, but this is not going to make me run out and buy a new 360.

The new 120 GB HD is definitely something I’ll get for my living room 360. They better make an easy way to transfer information from your old 20 GB drive to your new 120 GB drive, though. I really don’t want to have to buy some 3rd party item to copy all of my stuff off the old drive.

IPTV sounds cool, but we’ll have to see how this is going to work, exactly.

By: kineticonline

kineticonline — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 01:09:20 +0000

Your best best would be the datel xsata, it will let you backup all your “stuff” to a PC, and if the IPTV with dvr is true then something with non size limited transfers would be the way to go,

By: Vampyre Mike

Vampyre Mike — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 00:59:07 +0000

I can care less about the HDMI. My question is how the hell do i transfer my saves to the new HD, buy a memory card too??? jeeeez

By: Gotmian

Gotmian — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 00:55:45 +0000

Perfect!

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 00:53:04 +0000

what the hell HDMI XBOX 360 version then why did I buy my 360 I want this version, godamn!

By: frednut

frednut — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 00:44:19 +0000

IPTV eh? I’m excited by that. Sounds an intresting idea and one which should appeal to many people!