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Microsoft Set To Debut Xbox Live Upgrade

Posted by simoniker on from the talk-smack-without-sports-game-excuse dept.

Thanks to reader dj_paulgibbs for pointing to this Yahoo story talking about further upgrades to Xbox Live that Microsoft plan to unveil at E3. Yahoo's sources say these include "advanced community features such as voice chat and locater services that operate independently of games in progress", and also mentions a new "Xbox Music Mixer" for audio, as well as the ability to play video transferred from a PC. This is separate to the Xbox Live software upgrade we mentioned last week.

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  1. interesting by bigbigbison · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I find it interesting that we are getting this news of xbox live updates, but still no news on what the fee structure will be like after the year expires. One has to wonder if there is some serious debate going on over this up at redmond.

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  2. Re:more on 'Xbox Music Mixer' via Reuters. by mrpuffypants · · Score: 2, Interesting

    properly encoded video

    that's the kicker...what's "properly encoded?" For microsoft it probably means WMA and ASF or WMV, but I have a large part of my music collection in mp3 (like 90% of the world), ogg people will be left out in the rain as usual probably, and all these nifty new music purchases that I've made with iTune's Music Store are totally DOA.

    If this service sees that light of day (and it prolly will), would you consider convertying your collection to WMA just to use the xbox with it? For me it wouldn't be an option because I rip FIRST on my iBook, then xfer to the PC, but what about everybody else?