360 Spring Update Now Available 69
A little late, but just as impressive as promised, the Spring Update to Xbox Live is now available for download. The most anticipated feature is the addition of 'background' downloading and download queueing. The update also reorganizes where several oddly placed options were located, and generally smooths the UI experience.
DIVX support would have been nice (Score:4, Interesting)
I just wish they would support DIVX. I guess this would only encourage copywrite infringement or something.
Re:DIVX support would have been nice (Score:2)
Re:DIVX support would have been nice (Score:2)
Re:DIVX support would have been nice (Score:2)
Re:DIVX support would have been nice (Score:4, Insightful)
That, and DivX charges licensing fees for it. Every XBox would be "encumbered" with an extra fee payable to DivX Networks, Inc. - this is how the DivX DVD player industry works. I don't think MS want to pay for an MPEG4 codec when they have a pretty okay MPEG4 codec they can license to themselves for free (including the one specified for Blu-Ray and HD-DVD as a mandatory supported codec..)
Re:DIVX support would have been nice (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:DIVX support would have been nice (Score:2)
That said with a Mac version, decent ATI graphics support (videosoap, pixelshader tricks etc. to improve quality) they have little work to do to do it. Maybe it could be a $5 download and everyone would be happy. I wonder how much development DivX would ACTU
Playing DivX ;-) on a Media Center Extender (Score:2)
Re:Playing DivX ;-) on a Media Center Extender (Score:2)
And the other problem is that when I STOP the movie, and play again, it will re-sync. But that means I need to fast forward from the very beginning...
Re:Playing DivX ;-) on a Media Center Extender (Score:2)
Re:Weird. (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Weird. (Score:2, Informative)
And background downloading wasn't there at first because some tradeoffs had to be made to get the console out on time.
Not got a box but... (Score:2, Troll)
I.E. is it firmware based and can people mess it up? I would like to know (just out of curiosity) how they are maanging this...
Re:Not got a box but... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Not got a box but... (Score:2)
Re:Not got a box but... (Score:1)
Not bricked... (Score:1)
Re:Not got a box but... (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Not got a box but... (Score:1)
I downloaded the update at approximately 6:15AM EST. Went through 2 progress bars and then my screen went black (no VGA signal). I let it sit for 2 minutes with no response. Shut the machine off (had to go to work).
Came home today, it failed to go through the familar boot sequence, and called support. After 15 minutes on hold (researching the problem), I was told that I would have to send it in. The representative told me that "ther
Better support for Xbox 360 game disc recognition (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Better support for Xbox 360 game disc recogniti (Score:4, Informative)
Source: http://www.maxconsole.net/?mode=news&newsid=7645 [maxconsole.net]
Re:Better support for Xbox 360 game disc recogniti (Score:1)
Re:Better support for Xbox 360 game disc recogniti (Score:1)
Re:Better support for Xbox 360 game disc recogniti (Score:1)
Re:Scrambling To Counter Sony And Nintendo's Onlin (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Scrambling To Counter Sony And Nintendo's Onlin (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Scrambling To Counter Sony And Nintendo's Onlin (Score:2)
No idea how nintendo's service will pan out but Sony's "Free Service" doesn't actually include online play (don't believe me? GO READ IT). Basically they're offering the same thing MS does with their free Silver level service. Sony's strategy seems to still be "just let the developers handle it". And if previous consoles are any indication it means half the games will have free service on crappy overloaded servers and the other half will charge game specific monthly f
Re:Scrambling To Counter Sony And Nintendo's Onlin (Score:1)
The thing that is much better on PCs is dedicated servers. Maybe this is different for s
Re:Scrambling To Counter Sony And Nintendo's Onlin (Score:1)
Re:Scrambling To Counter Sony And Nintendo's Onlin (Score:2)
I'd much rather pay 50 bucks a year rather than 10 bucks per month per game.
Re:Scrambling To Counter Sony And Nintendo's Onlin (Score:1)
You mean except for games like PSO and FF XI? It seems to me that with Live, you have to pay a monthly fee for the same types of games that you'd have to pay a monthly fee on PS2. Only difference is that Live has an extra $50/year on top of it.
Re:Wake me up when it's competitive with piracy (Score:2)
Why would I care where the data was coming from? If they've got big enough pipes to give me 1.8mb/sec all the time, I could care less.
Re:Wake me up when it's competitive with piracy (Score:2)
Re:About fucking time. (Score:3, Informative)
The 360 also shipped with support for USB keyboards. I used one when dealing with FFXI Beta installation, and for miscellaneous other things.
As far as the drive goes... remember, it's a very high-speed DVD drive. From my understanding, just about every drive that runs at that speed is that loud. You may not noti
Re:About fucking time. (Score:2)
Re:About fucking time. (Score:1, Interesting)
"- make me forget that I'm using an MS product. Seriously, there is no need for me to be hogtied to a Media Center PC when the X360 is essentially a Media Center PC."
Windows Media Connect? You can assign NAS mapped drives with it. And I'm not sure what you mean about the make me forget I'm using a MS product... They made it what should they do make the GUI look like OSX? If you want a different look change the skin.
"- make it easy to access
Re:About fucking time. (Score:2)
Xbox button->Media pane->Music->Select music. How does your setup work?
Windows Media Connect?
Again - why should I have to install another little widget on my laptop or PC (which has to be MS, btw) for functionality that is technically already in the X360? Furthermore, if a change in GUI is all it takes to make you forget your using an MS product... I'm assuming that your entire network is already MS centric.
This has been in for a while and they p
Re:About fucking time. (Score:1)
You don't. You could certainly copy all of your music to the Xbox 360 hard drive, if you really wanted to. You can also connect mp3 players and external hard drives (FAT32-formatted only)
Re:About fucking time. (Score:2)
Re:About fucking time. (Score:2)
I didn't go looking for a Linux-based UPnP media server that can support the Xbox 360 when I posted my previous comment here, though I posited that such software must exist. Today, I accidentally stumbled across the answer: GeeXboX uShare [geexbox.org].
While it's intended for GeeXboX [geexbox.org], it apparently supports the Xbox 360 (not surprisingly, since the Xbox 360 looks just like a "normal" UPnP media device). I haven't tried it so I can't say how well it works, but it closes the gap. There are now media-serving options fo
Re:About fucking time. (Score:1)
To avoid confusion, I want to make sure people know that this is slightly inaccurate. Windows Media Connect CANNOT stream ANY video at this time to your XBOX 360. The quoted statement above makes it sound like you do not need Media Center/Vista.
"...over 125 features added..." (Score:1, Offtopic)
Re:"...over 125 features added..." (Score:1)
You spent $187.50USD on Microsoft Points? Damn. Then again, it would cost you $957.38USD [pixelgamers.com], or 76,590.4 Points, to purchase everything on the Marketplace (as of last month, anyway).
80 Points = $1USD, so 15,000 Points = $187.50USD. I assume you mean either 1,500 Points (purchased through the Marketplace online for $18.75USD) or a 1,600 Point card purchased for $20USD + tax from a brick and mortar store.
Re:"...over 125 features added..." (Score:1)
BTW, ask those reviewers if they played SF2 online. I bet they didn't. Considering the reports of online play issues for Capcom's Xbox 1 games (I never played any myself), I'm glad they're taking more time to work on the online play portion for the 360.
I'm more looking forward to Lumines Live myself...
I got the update but.... (Score:1)
Re:I got the update but.... (Score:2)
If you JUST got the update then as of last night you didn't have the update to allow you to do background downloads. It wasn't released until this morning so expecting to be able to use a feature of the update before you got the update is just silly
"Full" USB Keyboard Support? (Score:1)
Re:"Full" USB Keyboard Support? (Score:2)
Re:"Full" USB Keyboard Support? (Score:1)
Update process : Xbox hung (Score:1)
PAL-50 - PAL 60 Bug (Score:1)