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Xbox, A New Generation Revealed (livesteam)

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Re: Xbox, A New Generation Revealed (livesteam)

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Post by quackerhacker »

mikestew wrote: post #12

"Practically silent" means my wife will practically force me to buy one, as she (rightfully) complains about the jet engine turbines the launch day 360 uses for fans. I've been holding off buying a dedicated Blu-ray player, so that has some value. Don't care about Kinect, not enough room in the TV room. Don't care about being "connected" as I have enough Skype-enabled, etc. devices around the house. The hard question…

Damn right! You must have the 1st gen 360 like me....ahhh my little space heater that's louder than my crossfire gpus.

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Post by InclinedPlane »

archgrove wrote: post #3

Most annoying to me, is we're 30 minutes into the reveal, and they've still not discussed games. Literally, we've had about 7 seconds of a game playing in the background. As far as I people can tell, this would (so far) seem to be a voice controlled cable box. Oh, and it looks like a shiny VCR. Bleh. Edit: Ah, at 31 minutes, we have a games developer. Pity it's EA, but c'est la vie.

Thanks, I got a lot of value from that middlebrow dismissal.

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Post by pgeorgi »

FreeBird wrote: post #15

From the web: "8 gigs of RAM, USB 3.0, Wi-Fi Direct, a Blu-Ray disc drive, 64-bit architecture and "practically silent operation." Super fast switching of TV inputs between TV, Gaming, Skype,IE etc. Runs the Windows NT kernel. Kinect 2.0 also gets a substantial upgrade. Whitten promised the integrated camera will have a wider field of view, and the sensor will be able to detect more joints, to include rotation of wri…

"read your heartrate" reminded me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONZcjs1Pjmk (video to MIT paper submitted to SIGGRAPH about emphasizing video features, blood flow among them)

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Post by smallegan »

Did they discuss how you get TV onto the XBOX? Are they offering a service to get TV via your internet connection? I didn't see a coax port on the back of it...Or is this just an extension of windows media center and you need a PC in the background to act as the tuner?

Re: Xbox, A New Generation Revealed (livesteam)

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Post by FreeBird »

nwh wrote: post #21
FreeBird wrote: post #15

From the web: "8 gigs of RAM, USB 3.0, Wi-Fi Direct, a Blu-Ray disc drive, 64-bit architecture and "practically silent operation." Super fast switching of TV inputs between TV, Gaming, Skype,IE etc. Runs the Windows NT kernel. Kinect 2.0 also gets a substantial upgrade. Whitten promised the integrated camera will have a wider field of view, and the sensor will be able to detect more joints, to include rotation of wri…

It's funny that they are advertising "64bit" as a feature. The Nintendo 64 took that flag in 1999.

They're not. http://d35lb3dl296zwu.cloudfront.net/uploads/photo/image/114...
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