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NXE, That new Xbox Dashboard Thing?

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  • mxmarksmxmarks Registered User regular
    FyreWulff wrote: »
    No wonder XBLA sales gone up, it -is- a lot easier to browse them casually now.

    For instance, I found out yesterday that Live Arcade has Dig Dug and is only 200 msp.

    I need someone to put points cards on sale. When looking at my past transactions, pre-NXE I purchased only Rock Band songs and Rez. That was it.

    Since NXE, I've purchased Uno, a theme, a gamerpic and will now be getting Dig Dug. It's way too easy to spend what looks like "fake M$ funbux!" and then wonder why I have no real money weeks later.

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  • fragglefartfragglefart Registered User regular
    FyreWulff wrote: »
    That's still not out..

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  • Santa ClaustrophobiaSanta Claustrophobia Ho Ho Ho Disconnecting from Xbox LIVERegistered User regular
    mxmarks wrote: »
    FyreWulff wrote: »
    No wonder XBLA sales gone up, it -is- a lot easier to browse them casually now.

    For instance, I found out yesterday that Live Arcade has Dig Dug and is only 200 msp.

    I need someone to put points cards on sale. When looking at my past transactions, pre-NXE I purchased only Rock Band songs and Rez. That was it.

    Since NXE, I've purchased Uno, a theme, a gamerpic and will now be getting Dig Dug. It's way too easy to spend what looks like "fake M$ funbux!" and then wonder why I have no real money weeks later.

    Check a local Circuit City that's going out of business? Maybe they still have some. (They were 10% off a week or two ago.)

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  • tbloxhamtbloxham Registered User regular
    The NXE is such a triumph because the adverts don't look like adverts and can be accesed and inspected as content, it's miraculous. How often do you click a pop up bar on a website or something? Now, how many times have you clicked on any product being offered in any menu bar other than the basic burrow through menus on NXE? I bet most people are like me and have looked at more stuff through banners on their 360 in the last 2 weeks than they did with the old system in 2 years, or in 10 years of using the internet.

    People who previously didn't even know the Xbox had this sort of content now have it right there when they turn it on.

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  • maximumzeromaximumzero Registered User regular
    mxmarks wrote: »
    I got this today. Fucking awesome. Avatar options a little limited, but they're great. Theyre fun without being too childish, and childish without alienating me. Thumbs up! Also, quick-launch is easily the best feature ever. I used to hate having to go to the dash and clicking x times to find whatever i'd just downloaded or want to play. I'm finding the interface so much nicer to look at, so much faster, and a shitload easier to navigate. And the learning curve for me was next to nothing.

    Connect360 has also made my 360 fuckloads more useful than it ever was before, happily plonked down $35AU for that.


    Connect360 is amazing.

    If I had an HDTV with a home theatre setup I'd end up ripping all my DVDs to my Mac and just watch them on the 360 via the network.

    Second this. Thats what I usually do - everything comes off my Mac. It's so, so awesome, and has made Apple TV totally obsolete.

    You know what else I'd do? I'd buy a Blu-Ray drive for my Mac just so I could rip BR movies and stream them to the 360 in a strange extremely ironic sort of way.

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  • freakish lightfreakish light Registered User regular
    Aren't those like 20+ gigs? I mean, I don't know, but I thought that was the capacity of a BRD.

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  • ghost_master2000ghost_master2000 Registered User regular
    I'm not sure an ethernet connection could keep up with the bandwidth required to play a blu ray movie.

  • zanetheinsanezanetheinsane Registered User regular
    Blu-Ray movies have a maximum AV transfer rate of 48 Mbps. A wired 100 Mbit connection should theoretically be able to handle it. From what I've read, people have had success doing it, the only problem you're going to run into is getting the encoding right.

  • maximumzeromaximumzero Registered User regular
    Blu-Ray movies have a maximum AV transfer rate of 48 Mbps. A wired 100 Mbit connection should theoretically be able to handle it. From what I've read, people have had success doing it, the only problem you're going to run into is getting the encoding right.

    There's a Mac forum I frequent that goes over the basics of doing it properly. I'd get a TB external HDD and just load it up.

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  • mxmarksmxmarks Registered User regular
    This is more general XBox, but I just learned something and I'm pissed.

    So when I got my new XBox, I sold my roomate the old one. I used my memory card to move my saves and stuff over, and then used the DRM tool and re-downloaded all my XBLA games and DLC. I tested it all by unplugging live and it still worked, so I was good to go. I gave my roomate the XBox, but didn't delete the DLC and XBLA games because I didn't see the need to - I had used the DRM tool to switch console licenses, and my profile wasn't on that HD anymore. Nor would he have XBox Live when he moved.

    So I see him last night after the move, and gave him for Christmas the Fable 2 Pub Games. He wanted the hat, headband and moustache and I figured since he'll get the internet back someday, he could use it then. I had the Pub Games when we lived together, and he was mad I got completionist and he didn't. He tells me he doesn't need Pub games because MY copy still works on his XBox. He also thanked me for Rez.

    I thought the DRM tool would make it so the licence to the console changed? So even if you use the DRM tool, the console you originally purchase it on gets to use it, no matter what the gamertag is?

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  • Santa ClaustrophobiaSanta Claustrophobia Ho Ho Ho Disconnecting from Xbox LIVERegistered User regular
    Okay... That was kind of all over toward the end. It's hard to see why you're upset.

    I don't know why you thought using the DRM tool would automatically disable previously downloaded content since it had already been 'tagged' as valid on the original 360. Unless they have it set up to where the old 360 logs in, attempts to validate the license, and then it's turned off because the license has been moved, all old content should work without issue.

    The DRM license transfer is so that you can use content you've purchased even whilst offline on what is considered a different console.

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  • capable heartcapable heart Registered User regular
    Aren't those like 20+ gigs? I mean, I don't know, but I thought that was the capacity of a BRD.

    Blu-ray Discs currently have 2 layers at 25GB each, so about 45 to 50 GB maximum capacity, depending on how you count it. When making an ISO of a Blu-ray Disc movie, you'll find they don't necessarily fill the disc to absolute full, it could be 5 or 10, etc., GBs less. (Also, there are single-layer 25GB-only BDs. Movies tend to be on BD50s, but not all of them.)

    And yes, if you play ISOs of your Blu-ray movies, like from a PC used for home theater functions, you will probably need some extra hard drive space.

  • maximumzeromaximumzero Registered User regular
    Aren't those like 20+ gigs? I mean, I don't know, but I thought that was the capacity of a BRD.

    Blu-ray Discs currently have 2 layers at 25GB each, so about 45 to 50 GB maximum capacity, depending on how you count it. When making an ISO of a Blu-ray Disc movie, you'll find they don't necessarily fill the disc to absolute full, it could be 5 or 10, etc., GBs less. (Also, there are single-layer 25GB-only BDs. Movies tend to be on BD50s, but not all of them.)

    And yes, if you play ISOs of your Blu-ray movies, like from a PC used for home theater functions, you will probably need some extra hard drive space.

    But I wouldn't play the direct ISO, I'd encode it into whatever the HD varient of MPEG4 is.

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  • mxmarksmxmarks Registered User regular
    Okay... That was kind of all over toward the end. It's hard to see why you're upset.

    I don't know why you thought using the DRM tool would automatically disable previously downloaded content since it had already been 'tagged' as valid on the original 360. Unless they have it set up to where the old 360 logs in, attempts to validate the license, and then it's turned off because the license has been moved, all old content should work without issue.

    The DRM license transfer is so that you can use content you've purchased even whilst offline on what is considered a different console.

    I guess Im more upset because he's enjoying Rez, Pub Games, ect... while I don't have access to the stuff he purchased (we split XBLA games while we roomed), because it's never been on my console. I was exaggerating, I really don't care, I was just surprised.

    I really did think the DRM tool disabled non-Live content on the original box and transferred it to the new box. I figured with how nuts Microsoft is about DRM, they wouldn't want more than one box to be able to share content. It was surprising just because had I known that earlier, there was a million ways we could have downloaded and purchased stuff so that BOTH of us would end up with full working copies (basically buy all the stuff under my tag, he physically pays me back for it, and then I do what I did with the DRM tool on a new box). It's just funny how trying to do it fairly here at home (We alternated who bought games we were both going to play), wound up giving him a ton of stuff free - which I know is against everything MS stands for.

    But I was exaggerating, but really did think the DRM tool disabled use on the original console.

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  • Nimble CatNimble Cat Registered User regular
    It disabled Pac Man CE on my brother's console when I transfered my licenses.

  • pablo_pricepablo_price Registered User regular
    presumably the first time he gets onto live (or maybe tries to use those things while connected) they will be disabled on that console.

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  • PikaPuffPikaPuff Registered User regular
    HOLY FUCK THIS SNOW GLOBE IS FREAKY AS SHIT AHHAKRLA;HNLR

  • FyreWulffFyreWulff Registered User, ClubPA regular
    The content will work on the old Xbox until they have to redownload. Then they're SOL.

  • ginguskahnginguskahn Registered User
    Just bought the 120gb HDD and now installing L4D, I am a consumer whore.

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  • ben0207ben0207 Registered User regular
    Any body know about using your own hard drive in an enclosure for the 360? I know there's sometihng called X-Port which I tihnk I'll need, but anything else?

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  • WillethWilleth Registered User regular
    ben0207 wrote: »
    Any body know about using your own hard drive in an enclosure for the 360? I know there's sometihng called X-Port which I tihnk I'll need, but anything else?

    Earlier in the thread we had a huge discussion about not discussing this.

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  • darleysamdarleysam Registered User regular
    PikaPuff wrote: »
    HOLY FUCK THIS SNOW GLOBE IS FREAKY AS SHIT AHHAKRLA;HNLR

    ........ what?

  • WillethWilleth Registered User regular
    It's in the Spotlight channel. Not sure if it's available for Brits yet.

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  • darleysamdarleysam Registered User regular
    Ahh okay, cool. Oh wait NOOOOOOOOOO ADVERTISING!!

  • Santa ClaustrophobiaSanta Claustrophobia Ho Ho Ho Disconnecting from Xbox LIVERegistered User regular
    It'd be nice if the song playing whilst viewing the snowglobe wasn't ear piercingly loud. Or at least switched to a different song...

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  • spookymuffinspookymuffin ( ° ʖ ° ) Speicher, GermanyRegistered User regular
    Street Fighter Uno deck is on, and it's fun.

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  • El GuacoEl Guaco Registered User regular
    PikaPuff wrote: »
    HOLY FUCK THIS SNOW GLOBE IS FREAKY AS SHIT AHHAKRLA;HNLR

    So the other people in there are your friends or something? I don't recognize any avatar except mine.

    Also, the avatars are all painfully gay looking (not that there's anything wrong with that). My girlfriend says mine looks like a lesbian with a beard. They all have small girlish shoulders and skinny arms & legs. It would have been nice to give us some controls so that you could be a tad more masculine instead of all looking like pre-teen girls.

    I understand that there are limits to cut down on resources, but how hard would it have been to adjust shoulders, hips, and leg lengths? I think I'd rather have a Mii than look like a rejected Bratz doll.




  • marionboymarionboy Registered User
    how do you rip a cd onto the new xbox expirence

  • ChewyWafflesChewyWaffles Registered User
    I'm not sure an ethernet connection could keep up with the bandwidth required to play a blu ray movie.

    It could with 100 megabit or gigabit easily.

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  • desperaterobotsdesperaterobots Registered User regular
    So the harddrive on my mac isn't particularly big. If I got myself a terabyte external harddrive to connect by USB, would I be able to stream video from it to my 360? Or would i have to shuffle it to my HDD first?

  • ben0207ben0207 Registered User regular
    Willeth wrote: »
    ben0207 wrote: »
    Any body know about using your own hard drive in an enclosure for the 360? I know there's sometihng called X-Port which I tihnk I'll need, but anything else?

    Earlier in the thread we had a huge discussion about not discussing this.

    Ah fair dues.

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  • freakish lightfreakish light Registered User regular
    So the harddrive on my mac isn't particularly big. If I got myself a terabyte external harddrive to connect by USB, would I be able to stream video from it to my 360? Or would i have to shuffle it to my HDD first?

    Yes. You can connect the drive directly to the 360 and it'll work. I don't know if it'll route through the Mac, though, because as far as I know the 360 shares the WMP11 Library.

    If you can get a small .avi file you can see about trying to configure it to stream to 360, if hooking the drive up to it straight is a big deal for some reason. Also you can't save any 360 data onto that drive, obviously.

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  • WillethWilleth Registered User regular
    Wow, they're still charging for Uno theme decks? Ugh.

    EDIT: Just played it, and it's not even good. The Draw Four is now a Draw Until You Get A Skip or Reverse, and that's the only change except the sound effects.

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  • Santa ClaustrophobiaSanta Claustrophobia Ho Ho Ho Disconnecting from Xbox LIVERegistered User regular
    Willeth wrote: »
    Wow, they're still charging for Uno theme decks? Ugh.

    EDIT: Just played it, and it's not even good. The Draw Four is now a Draw Until You Get A Skip or Reverse, and that's the only change except the sound effects.

    You know what makes a game fun? When you take the already simple rules and then start adding shit to it just to fuck with everybody else. It's not quite Calvinball, but you paid for the privilege. (280 pts too... What a rip!)

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  • WillethWilleth Registered User regular
    No I didn't, I piggybacked off the first game I could find with the SFII deck :P

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  • ben0207ben0207 Registered User regular
    So the harddrive on my mac isn't particularly big. If I got myself a terabyte external harddrive to connect by USB, would I be able to stream video from it to my 360? Or would i have to shuffle it to my HDD first?

    Yes. You can connect the drive directly to the 360 and it'll work. I don't know if it'll route through the Mac, though, because as far as I know the 360 shares the WMP11 Library.

    If you can get a small .avi file you can see about trying to configure it to stream to 360, if hooking the drive up to it straight is a big deal for some reason. Also you can't save any 360 data onto that drive, obviously.
    You can use Connect360 to connect a Mac to your 360, and you can tell that to use whatever folder you feel like to look for movie files (including network and USB volumes).

    Unfortunately Connect360 doesn't work at all for me, but it used to on my old Mac.

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  • SparrowSparrow Registered User
    Does anyone know if its possible to save OXBOX games to the hard drive? I mean, I've managed to get a few 360 ones on there no problem but the option doesn't seem to show up for my older games.

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  • Jam WarriorJam Warrior Registered User regular
    Sparrow wrote: »
    Does anyone know if its possible to save OXBOX games to the hard drive? I mean, I've managed to get a few 360 ones on there no problem but the option doesn't seem to show up for my older games.

    Nope. Can't be done.

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  • DeathPrawnDeathPrawn Registered User
    If they did that, they wouldn't be able to charge ridiculous amounts of money for Xbox Originals.

    So, no.

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  • RisenPhoenixRisenPhoenix Registered User regular
    DeathPrawn wrote: »
    If they did that, they wouldn't be able to charge ridiculous amounts of money for Xbox Originals.

    So, no.

    That wouldn't be nearly as painful if they would only bring out some games that are worth the money they insist on charging. I would give my left nut for a port of Munch's Oddessy - but noooo. Let's port Zapper over. Pricks.

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