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Bill Gates speaks about IPTV on Xbox 360 |
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Wednesday, 09 August 2006 |
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An interesting article appeared early in January Engadget. The article was an interview with Bill Gates about the future of IPTV on the Xbox 360. Bill seemed to be a bit cagey about the usage of the Xbox 360 as a IPTV player. Check out hte article.
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Transcode 360 - DivX for your Xbox 360 |
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Tuesday, 25 April 2006 |
 A video transcoding utility was released late last week that
would enable the playback of unsupported video over Xbox 360 and Media
Center Extender devices. This software is designed to run on Windows XP
Media Center Edition 2005.
Transcode is completely free for non-commercial use. You can download the software from this site.
Mark Manes, the creator of ChannelGuide 360 when asked about whether
ChannelGuide 360 would not incorporate vodcasts and other video sources
that are encoded in DivX or XViD responded with the following. “Right
now the majority of vodcasts are in either QuickTime or MPEG-4 format.
We’re keeping the focus on developing Windows Media Video content so
that additional tools are not required to watch the content we catalog
in our guide. We are of course excited to see the development efforts
continue on tools such as Transcode 360.”
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Paramount Studios Supports the Xbox 360 |
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Thursday, 13 April 2006 |
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Movie trailers in both standard and high definition have been available on the Apple's QuickTime movie trailer site for some time now, but the XBox 360 has caused at least one movie studio to sit up and take notice. Paramount Studios is offering high definition trailers through the XBox 360. The studio's move was reported in a recent Los Angeles Times article. Paramount's move can be seen as a small nod to XBox 360 owners. However, it also seems to indicate an acknowledgement that the entertainment industry is starting to consider the XBox 360 as something more than just a game console. Paramount's decision will likely cause other studios to follow in their footsteps. Stay tuned...
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DivX playback on your Xbox 360! |
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Wednesday, 22 March 2006 |
Runtime360.com has a working DivX video playback solution for us Windows XP Media Center users who want to stream content to our Xbox 360s other than Windows Media Video (WMV).
For now Channel Guide 360 will only list channels that are available in Windows Media Video format but we will follow this development closely. If you’re interested in the software check out runtime360.com . The developer is doing some really interesting work!
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DirecTV Blade for Xbox 360? |
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Tuesday, 14 March 2006 |
Engaget has heard of DirecTV's philandering with Microsoft at CES when they announced they had plans for Windows Media integration and were going to "Extend the DirecTV experience to the Xbox 360 system." Well it looks like they might not just be hooking up a DirecTV box to the 360 and calling it good, but might in fact be adding a whole new blade to the Xbox 360 Dashboard that would allow for HD movie and TV downloads along with "standard-definition streaming DVR (i.e., TiVo) functions." This is according to the Official Xbox Magazine, who marks the story as a rumor. However, if it the story is true, the Xbox 360 might just be giving the PS3 a run for its money in the media department after all. See the comments
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