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theodp writes 'Bill G.'s snagged the cover of this week's Time, which asks the question: Is Microsoft about to do in the living room with the Xbox 360 what it did in the office with Windows? Turn to page 13 in your Book of Xenon, please: 'As the world's software leader, Microsoft is among the best suited to enable and capitalize this transformation. This is our opportunity to lose.' If PlayStation 3 folks are scared, they're not showing it. 'We look at delivering a quantum leap in technology, not just Xbox version 1.5,' quips a Sony spokeswoman.' The story also reveals that the previously discussed rumor about Halo 3 parrying the PS3 launch is accurate.
Is Microsoft about to do in the living room with the Xbox 360 what it did in the office with Windows?
I hope not. Every office I've worked in has invested heavily in Microsoft Office products, and it's not uncommon to hear profanity-laden comments about Word headers and footers, or some silly idiosyncracy of Outlook. The last thing I need is to come home and have my living room be a den of annoyance.
"I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar."
-Hoban Washburn
Upscaling of DVD's to HD with tweaks and filters to really make your DVD's look good.
It could also offer a platform that could record all your dvd's to network drives for instant playback at the touch of a button.
It could also be a DVR for SD and HD content.
Sorry folks but while graphics are cool good games are important but come second to managing the entertainment content of the house.
People dont like managing cd collections, game collections, and dvd collections come in 2nd to taking up space to the VHS tape. I think Laserdisc was probably worse but how many people actually bought more than 20 of them.
I want a device that has the ability through a open API that would allow others to write plugins that would let it interface with a iPod or other digitial media player. I want it to recode my movies on the fly and compress them down to fit on a 1g SD memory card to I can have some entertainment on my PDA. And if the wife is watching a recorded program on the TV in the living room I'd love the ability to load up a network tool that would let me play a video game on a PC monitor that's saved back on the PS3.
Do all this without any DRM encumberances and you will rule the home entertainment arena not just play in it.
it's how you hype it. ;)
Seriously, it's only Monday, and all this Xbox talk, that will without a doubt continue all week, is going to make me vomit.
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The Xbox is just a gaming PC for Posers, and Halo is a FPS for Posers!
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