Microsoft Xbox 360

Last edited:
Bought my son a gaming chair for Christmas to use with his 360.

The only way I can get it set up is to use the old rca cable where the red and white cables carry the sound to the chair and the yellow cable does the picture.

Problem is on his tv the picture is noticeably poorer than when we use the hdmi cable.

Does anyone know if I can buy something that splits the sound on an hdmi cable?

Cheers
Shooto
 
For anyone else wondering about this...

Picked up a 360 audio adapter cable from argos for 5 quid.

It means I can use hdmi cable and the sound splitter at the same time.
 
Tversity works reasonably well as long as your PC or your Xbox is wired in to your router. I find that if I used both the PC and the 360 wirelessly it will take some time to buffer and will drop out from time to time.
 
If you're not wired up I'd suggest using powerline adaptors as they (in my experience) provide a much more stable and consistent connection than wireless, my router is in the office and I have powerline adaptors from the router to the office wall socket and then in the bedroom have the second one which is connected to an old router which is set to run as a switch which provides the connection for my 360 and popcorn hour as well as a wireless signal for the phones/laptops, works great, I get around 6mb/s (48Mbit) when copying files from my PC to the popcorn hour :)
 
The next Xbox: Always online, no second-hand games, 50GB Blu-ray discs and new Kinect

Microsoft’s next console will require an Internet connection in order to function, ruling out a second-hand game market for the platform. A new iteration of Xbox Live will be an integral part of Microsoft’s next console, while improved Kinect hardware will also ship alongside the unit.

Sources with first-hand experience of Microsoft’s next generation console have told us that although the next Xbox will be absolutely committed to online functionality, games will still be made available to purchase in physical form. Next Xbox games will be manufactured on 50GB-capacity Blu-ray discs, Microsoft having conceded defeat to Sony following its ill-fated backing of the HD-DVD format. It is believed that games purchased on disc will ship with activation codes, and will have no value beyond the initial user.

Our source has also confirmed that the next Xbox’s recently rumoured specs are entirely accurate. That means an AMD eight-core x64 1.6GHz CPU, a D3D11.x 800MHz graphics solution and 8GB of DDR3 RAM. As of now, the console’s hard drive capacity is said to be undecided, but Microsoft’s extended commitment to online delivery suggests that it will be the largest unit it has put inside a console to date.

Though the architectures of the next-gen Xbox and PlayStation both resemble that of PCs, several development sources have told us that Sony’s solution is preferable when it comes to leveraging power. Studios working with the next-gen Xbox are currently being forced to work with only approved development libraries, while Sony is encouraging coders to get closer to the metal of its box. Furthermore, the operating system overhead of Microsoft’s next console is more oppressive than Sony’s equivalent, giving the PlayStation-badged unit another advantage.

Unlike Nintendo, Microsoft is continuing to invest heavily in motion-control interfaces, and a new, more reliably responsive Kinect will also ship alongside the next Xbox. Sony’s next-generation console camera system is said to have a similar set of features, and is expected to be discussed at the company’s PlayStation event on February 20.

You can read more about how Sony’s next generation console compares in last week’s
Click to expand...

http://www.edge-online.com/news/the...hand-games-50gb-blu-ray-discs-and-new-kinect/
 
Honome said:
is the "always online" that concerns me more. really don´t mind to have only digital games or non used games but to force you to play always online is absurd.
Click to expand...

So parents buying consoles for their kids to play offline only is out of the question now.

I've been reading many site's responses and they're all against this. Not one positive comment.

Really hope this stays a rumor.
 
Lami said:
So parents buying consoles for their kids to play offline only is out of the question now.

I've been reading many site's responses and they're all against this. Not one positive comment.

Really hope this stays a rumor.
Click to expand...

I think it's a load of bollocks.
 
I can accept the always online thing as being true, didn't it used to have that year ago? I'm sure I had games that I download that wouldn't play unless I was online.

The used game thing. Unless they're going to let you still trade and share games but have to buy another activation code... Like the online game passes, I think that's rumours and nothing more. The same things were floating around over a year ago about ps4 and it seems to have just drifted its way to Xbox.
 
I just don't think it's going to happen. Like someone else Radiation mentioned, you're probably going to have to buy another activation code which would be the price of a used game, I guess. Maybe this way they'd ensure devs get the money instead of game stores.
 
It would be cool if you could do hand/finger gestures to navigate. Like a thumbs up would do something, or the star trek hand thing etc you could program what hand gesture did what, that would be good.
 
Yeah didn't see anything new.

Been having big problems over the last two days with getting disconnected from Xbox live constantly, like 5 times an hour or something, normally it's very stable but guessing it's a problem with my connection rather than MS' servers?
 
I had couple disconnections past days (but only 2-3).

PS:This update maybe is for GoW Judgement,cause it`s leaked today.MS already warned players for Ban before official release.
 
2 pretty cool sounding rumoured features for the next Xbox.


Multitasking.
So you can play 1 game, stop at any point, go play something else, then return to the original game and resume where you left off.

The user menu is going to be based on a windows design. So you'll be able to edit what icons show for you and group them into folders and choose where they are placed.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom