Comments on: Microsoft Confirms Xbox 360 Movie Downloads

By: Michael Webster

Michael Webster — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 04:09:13 +0000

For years, Microsoft’s strategy has been to announce vaporware to halt consumers looking at competition.

I am not sure that this amounts to much more than that.

And while I prefer the OSX platform to XP, I would not be rushing to buy Apple’s dongle in January, but I can see many individuals who might be stopped in their tracks by this announcement.

Television should not be as complicated as an operating system.

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Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:51:43 +0000

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By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 06:07:49 +0000

also, you can download content even with an xbox live silver (free) membership. take a minute and check out xbox.com, you might be surprised what features you find out about.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 06:06:46 +0000

you own an xbox 360. have you ever looked at the top of it? there’s a space where the hard drive goes. they’re all external. take a look at the picture on engadget. it’s the grey bulge on top. They sell the hard drive in stores. I’m absolutely sure the core 360 you said you bought came with a list of accessories and a hard drive was on that list.

the mercury news is just wrong, perhaps you should write them. you can read any article anywhere where they actually show a picture of the console to see that.

It has to do with this post because the game required the hard drive. you said you bought it and played it. it is impossible that you did so without a hard drive. now you say you don’t have a hard drive and for some reason you don’t think you can ever get one, even though the fact the xbox 360’s hard drive is external, removable and upgradeable has been a pretty obvious fact since it was originally officially announced.

By: davis

davis — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 04:00:10 +0000

Final Fantasy was the biggest rip off ever, but I’m not sure what that has to do with this post. As to the hard drive question according to the Mercury News, they say it will only work with the premium Xbox.

“However, the service will have a number of significant limitations. It will only work on Xbox 360s that have a built-in hard drive, which Microsoft offers only on its premium model. Even then, given that the Xbox 360’s hard drive holds just 20 gigabytes of data, customers will be able to store only about 5 hours of high-definition or 15 to 17 hours of standard-definition video, far less than a typical digital video recorder.

The “vast majority” of the six million Xbox 360s Microsoft has shipped have hard drives, Henson said, although he declined to give specific numbers. In terms of the storage space” . . .

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/15945523.htm

It could be I’m interpreting this wrong, if so I’ll go back and clean up the post, but considering that I cancelled my Xbox Live membership today, I’m not sure that I’ll be able to download the films anyway.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 03:46:00 +0000

There is no such thing as an xbox 360 with an internal hard drive built in.

I’m sure by “won’t work with the service” you meant “merely need to purchase a hard drive but will probably wait until a larger one becomes available”.

BTW, weren’t you complaining about FFXI when you bought it and didn’t know it was only online, or was that thomas hawk? That game required a hard drive, how did you play it?