Word: xboxes
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...player, after paying a fairly low monthly or yearly fee to Napster, RealNetworks or Yahoo! Typically, you can play songs on a PC and even move them to participating non-iPods, such as Dell's Ditty. What's messed up is that none of those tracks play on the Xbox. Microsoft should have been careful to make sure that this content would be totally playable on the new Xbox, but that just didn't happen. So much for corporate synergy...
...plug in a camera to get a slideshow? I plugged an Olympus E-Volt E-500 full of shots directly into the Xbox, and got a high-definition slideshow better than any I would see from a burned CD in a DVD player or any other less competent media reader. It's impressive...
...problem with viewing pictures on the Xbox is that when you connect it over your home network to a PC full of family pictures (using free Windows Media Connect software available at Microsoft.com), the Xbox tosses the organization structure of your pics out the window. In my own My Pictures folder, there's a folder for each year, subdivided within with each photographic event. The Xbox lists all photos within your My Pictures folder, but without the hierarchy, so collections of pics from 2001 were listed confusingly alongside those from...
...high definition" is the Xbox 360, really? Truth is, it's totally high-def. If you have an HD TV set, you can see photos and other content (games, etc.) at the sharpest resolution possible. I was happy that it included wires to connect to my high-definition television. It also has a slot for the optical wire that transmits surround sound audio to a full-fledged Dolby Digital receiver, though you need to buy the optical wire itself at RadioShack or some other electronics shop...
...need to buy the $400 version of the console? Yes. If you are dying to get your hands on the Xbox 360, there's no reason not to splurge on the deluxe package with hard drive and wireless controller. The wireless controller is better than the regular wired one, and the included hard drive is key to playing older Xbox titles, as well as being useful for archiving music...