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damn it now I need to buy a xbox... been talking to the wife about getting one anyways for the kinect for the kids but now i have to buy it for the biggest kid in the house... me.. lol

Lisa, Arianna and I are going out to do some club shopping tonight, and I think I might have to get her to take a detour into Best Buy and put her employee discount to good use. 

I still need to know if there is a good way to stream home network content over the XBOX.  Honestly we have not played a game on our PS3 in nearly a year, however it is turned on every single day to be used to stream TV shows over the network.

Capt Fiero wrote: Lisa, Arianna and I are going out to do some club shopping tonight, and I think I might have to get her to take a detour into Best Buy and put her employee discount to good use.  I still need to know if there is a good way to stream home network content over the XBOX.  Honestly we have not played a game on our PS3 in nearly a year, however it is turned on every single day to be used to stream TV shows over the network.

Aye, as Inferno said, your PC and your 360 can connect through both Media Centre and Media Player (Which allows you to do really cool stuff like driving to a custom soundtrack in Forza) provided they're in the same network (Sharing the same router), as well as more conventional methods such as USB drives, CDs and DVDs.

If you have services like Netflix that can be done through the 360 (Including using it by voice-command now) or certain "On-Demand" services, quite a few of them link through the 360 as well. Obvious it goes without saying the 360 can play DVIX DVDs as well. If there is one area where the 360 falls flat, it is it's high definition side. Unless you use an HDMI cable (Which it doesn't come with, you have to buy them seperately). If you use the analog cables, the 360 actually outputs 720p, and then "stretches" the results up to 1080p, which can look kinda sloppy.

I remember cnet from a while ago saying that the difference between 720p and 1080p emerges from 50" and onward so your 52" 720p screen may not be the best choice. The computer screen is most probably going to have the better resolution (more vibrant colors etc.), but its good to check the response rate (some screens have very slow response rate which kills it in the end) and plus its a smaller size. The safest bet would be probably your 42" 1080p.

Well I moved from the 52" 720 TV to the 42" 1080 and maybe its just because the 42 is a much newer nicer machine, but dang it sure looks nicer cleaner and crisper. Plus the added bonus that the we have surround sound on this TV so I get to hear the Fiero engine noise behind me and when someone is coming around me to the left it actually sounds like they are to the left or to the right of me.

Now we just need to get all the names of all the people and clubs that were posted in this thread, collected and moved to the fist post so we can all add each other. As dumb as this sounds I am not sure what my gamer tag is, but I used the Facebook and MSN Messenger Link to search out my friends that are also on XBOX live using the same info and added them as friends so check your XBOX friends requests.

Also I just got done building my first Race Class Fiero, nearly 900hp Twin Turbo V8. Have not had a chance to race it yet, as I was so tired I was falling asleep while trying to go through all the settings and make sure I had everything maxed out.

Oh, and when you post your gamertags, THEY ARE CASE SENSITIVE. David is not the same as david or as DAVID. Just remember that.

damn wife nixxed my getting a xbox... will have to do it behind her back lol...

I will have to use the kids as a excuse

 

Fire451 wrote: damn wife nixxed my getting a xbox... will have to do it behind her back lol... I will have to use the kids as a excuse

Bring Kierra and Crystal over here, give Kierra 20mins with the Kinectabls Pets game and she will be so hooked, Crystal won't have any choice but to give in and let you get an XBOX.  Even I had to admit, when the Cub/Kitten comes right up to the screen and starts licking it and purring as you move your hands around it kinda makes ya melt a little bit.  At one point, the kitten finds an RC Truck and jumps on top of it to play, then you have to take control of the RC Truck, steering it by moving your hands around, and drive the cub around knocking over things for points.   Ya Ya the game is geared for kids, but there seems to be a little kid in every adult regardless of how much they try and hide it.

How big is the file?

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