wow, some pretty cool news on this page.

 

does anyone know how the audio output works on the 360? does it support optical or digital coax out? Does the cable split off the component cables? My audio receiver isn't next to my TV input, so i will need the optical cable to stretch a few extra feet.

 

Optical. I believe it is part of the massive connection plug that exits the 360.

 

I think I'm getting a 360 pretty soon for my dorm. Have any of you guys tried hooking it up to your computer monitor? How hard would it be and what extras would I need to get.

Thanks in advance,

Christoph

 

I thought of that topic last week:

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/x/xbox360vgahdcable/
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/x...60svideocable/

 

Its not hard to set up and the graphics look good on a monitor. The VGA cables cost 60 dollars tho.

 

see my previous post, $40 for vga cables from microcrap.

 

for those of you that are... just now, getting the 360... you guys are lucky cause there are sooooo many awesome titles sold as "previously played" game for CHEAP! I just saw "Ghost Recon Advance Warfare" @ Game Stop for $30! (which is still one of my all time favorite)

 

Has anyone tried hooking up an external hard drive via USB on the 360 to store content???

I don't own a 360 yet, just curious.

 

Amazon is selling 1,000 360 core systems for $100. Check their home page for details. They go on sale at 11am PST time.

Hope this isn't a repost

 

I want to get some pretty cheap Xbox360 games at Circuit city tomorrow I saw in the early bird special ad they had.

 

shhhhhh I think you and I are the only ones that know about it on the board.


https://acurazine.com/forums/showthr...15#post5122415

 

did some research last night and it looks like you can hook up an external hard drive to your 360 but it can only be read from so you could put all your MP3 and other media on there so it doesn't take up space on the primary in case you dont' want to through the hassle of ripping cd's to it all over again.

but in searching the net I also found they are planning on releasing a 100GB hard drive.

How much space are you guys using up in your hard drives at the moment?

do you guys find you are downloading a lot of stuff or using it mostly to store game data?

 

I have my PC connected through WMP 11 media sharing so I can stream music and videos from my PC. BTW, you don't have to physically connect them. Just make sure both are on the same network through a router.

I use the 360 hard drive primarily for demos and live arcade games. I have about 6gb of it free currently.

 

wish I could stream my music from iTunes...

 

it would be awesome if you could stream it from an NAS.

 

okay so I got one of these guys a week ago, and after some use, i have to say that I'm raelly impressed with the system. It has so much functionality, and it does it well. It multi-tasks (you can play music while you do everything), NBA 2k7 and GoW are games that I am really enjoying, the optical 5.1 is kick ass, Live Arcade is really fun and adds another dimension to the system, there are demos for EVERYTHING, High Def video downloads is a cool feature/option to have, and the wireless controllers work/feel great. Plus, i downloaded the zune software (reluctantly) and now I can stream vid, pics, and music from my comp. There are a few things that could use refining, but overall i'm really impressed.



This isn't to say that the ps3 doesn't do a lot of these things. It's just that the 360 does everthing well, and the games out are really getting good. Then again, this is over a year after launch, after several udpates and refinements.

Anyways, I was pleasantly surprised with the system.

 

This is why I'm waiting until next summer or so to get a PS3... b/c all of the stuff you like about the 360 (which I like as well) wasn't so great when that system was launched. But now the online content is awesome and there are some great games out.

I'm glad I waited until a few months ago to get a 360, b/c if I got one earlier, I would have hated it. And since I don't want to hate the PS3, I'm gonna wait on that too

 

okay, so I have a dumb question... where is the optical output in the 360?

 

there's a jack on the base of the AV cable that plugs into the 360

 

...after a year of having this thing, I didn't even know that...

 

^ surround sound is half the fun...

Has anyone played Test Drive?

 

also, geometry wars (XBLA) is amazing. Best $4 i've ever spent.

 

Ordered Xbox 360 on Dell.com...got it for 340 free shipping. I just picked up the table tennis game today for 18.99 (on sale at Best Buy) but the system wont be here till the first

 

lol thats like the guy who bought all the accessories for the nintendo Wii, but doesnt have the actual system

 

Truly the case where Wii stands for "Where is it."

 

i forgot who it was on this forum, they bought the extra wiimote and component cables and a game, just were waiting on getting the console back in stock

 

..all I can say is... "WOW!" I've been missin' out

playing GRAW-live.... you hear the other players walk behind and around you with the surround sound speakers

I've yet, to play the driving games... I assume you'd hear the cars passing by and going around you etc. etc...


I don't have Test Drive, but they have a used copy for sale at the local Blockbuster ($30), I might get it.

 

yeah in battlefield surround sound is great...you can tell where everyone is coming from by the sound of the motors...

and test drive is fantastic. I've been playing all day... graphics are stunning, and the gameplay is really fun. my only real complaint other than some annoying menu issues is that the online multiplayer aspect is not really there. maybe just not enough people have the game... there are about 150 races on the map where you are supposed to be able to compete with people online, but in about 10 hours of gameplay i've only found 3 people racing at any of them.

 

(hope this isn't a repost)

actually looks kinda fun... well, for $3.99

You can play live too!! I think there's two other games, but they look stupid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk7bRYGRFVI

 

So when is microsoft coming out with a bigger hard drive? I'd like to watch a movie or two they have for dl in HD, but I can only fit 2 at a time on this '20' gb drive. Any way to get content off the 360 to store on an external drive?

 

I saw this this thing at Game Stop, for about $50... you attach it to your PC where you can store everything there... I don't know what it's call... but I'll call them tomorrow and ask for the name/brand... I think it's pretty cool... cause you can just save everything on your PC and not worry about running out of room...

 

I mentioned it a few posts ago, supposdely they are working on a 100GB hard drive that may be coming out in the first quarter of '07

guess we'll have to wait and see.

your other option, if you store music and other content on the drive, is to hook up a USB drive to the 360. you can't write to it from the 360, but at least you can put all your music and other content on it so it doesn't occupy space on the primary.

 

external USB drive perhaps? very common these days.

 

okay, so I just saw a commercial for the DVD that's coming out this tuesday "Superman Returns" and it says that it'll be on HD-DVD AND Blu Ray... I thought the production companies were split down the middle... and had to choose a side, I didn't know they can put the movies out on both?

 

as long as they pay the licensing for both they can do what they want.

it's up to the studio to decide which they want to provide for.

unfortunately if they want to maximize sales they will need to provide for both until the format wars are over.

However, I only see the big budget movies doing this since they have the biggest backing from the studio.

 

^^^I see

 

this thing...




link:http://www.ebgames.com/product.asp?c...duct_id=802467

 

hmm so it's not necessarily a hard drive since it doesn't mention size or anything,, but a device to let you connect to a pc?

 

does anybody have an idea of how I would be able to connect to xbox live at my house...we have verizon fios so everything is wireless.