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Xbox 360 Spring 2007 Dashboard Update Hands-On
Engadget writes "Well, that Xbox 360 Spring 2007 Dashboard update did land at about 2:00AM PST as expected, and brought with it a few fun features we were hot to test out -- but none more than the Xbox's expanded video playback capabilities. We were able to play back 720p and even 1080p MPEG-4 and H.264 content on our Xbox 360. Technically speaking the Xbox 360 now officially beats out the Apple TV in the digital video arena, both in resolution and bitrate. (At best the ATV only does up to 720p at 5Mbps, while the Xbox does 1080p up to 10Mbps; neither supports higher than stereo audio.) In other words, if you're an Xbox owner thinking about an Apple TV for playing back video in your living room, you might want to think again."
In other words, if you're an Xbox owner thinking about an Apple TV for playing back video in your living room, you might want to think again.
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Raise your hands everybody who has Xbox and was "thinking about an Apple TV for playing back video". Anyone? Anyone...?
In the same line of constructing long sentences that convey no additional information at ALL:
If you're a calculator owner who was thinking of calculating the square root of a 10 digit number with a pen and paper, you may want to think again.
If you're a car owner who has to travel 40 miles every day to work and thought walking foot, you may want to think again.
If you're a wrist watch owner and you want to stop random people asking them what's the time on the street anyway, you may want to think again.
My friends are annoyed enough when I don't reply to their MSN conversations while I'm playing games on my PC. Without the keyboard attachement on the 360 controller, it will take even longer to reply and will give me even more reason to ignore their messages. If I'm on the Xbox, it's to play games. If I want to have an MSN conversation, I'll go on my PC. The Windows Live Messenger addition just doesn't seem like something I'll use.
I was only 28,931 registrations away from having a 6-digit UID
Now if only it would just read SMB shares...
transcode 360 does this, although the project hasn't been updated for sometime.
http://runtime360.com/projects/transcode-360/
The problem is rewind/forwarding doesn't work too well.
Check out the TVersity audio/video server. It's pretty cool in that it's free (as in beer) and does transcode on the fly for the xbox 360. It will even do HD transcoding if your PC has the processing power. It's also a lot more stable than Windows Media Connect.
Now you did it. You said something like "If you've got an Xbox 360, you should think twice about buying an AppleTV".
Batten down the hatches. Last time someone said something negative about an Apple product, there were riots. I don't know about you, but I'm buying plastic sheeting and duct tape.
You are welcome on my lawn.