Because its prescribed date is less than a week away , I ’ve been thinking a pile about the Xbox 360 Elite . By and large , thegaming printing press does n’t really get it , but that ’s because its not for them . An alternate name for it could have been Xbox 360 Home Theater Nut Edition .
There ’s a slew of commodity to it . The HDMI cable allows for HD - videodisc at 1080p over a exclusive overseas telegram . Good because those of us with low - end TVs do n’t have to depend on the telecasting for deinterlacing . The HDD ascent is welcome for storing more HD picture . But those are rental that expire . And DIY hacks as well as an official upgrade for the unconstipated 360 will be around , it ’s confutable how much value that effort has .
So it comes down to HDMI and disgraceful pigment .
Still , as someone who ’s taken an vivid liking to the Xbox video marketplace and the HD - DVD role player , I still want one . ( Pay for one is a different chronicle . ) But what I really dream about is a variant that commits the console to the life elbow room in a much slap-up way . Here ’s my wish inclination :
DVR affair : Let ’s start out with a bang . I want to block about the Vista loge in the living room , and thrust it in the office , the fashion it was intended to be ( See : HP ditching Home Theater PCs ) . Right now , to have both gambling and a DVR in the living elbow room , the Microsoft ecosytem doltishly requires you to have both a media center personal computer and Xbox side by side . That ’s moderately ludicrous . Just give the Xbox an outside , USB 2.0 Cablecard tuner and a microcode update with DVR part deep down . Done .
https://gizmodo.com/hp-completes-circle-of-life-cans-digital-entertainment-247887
Then …
Native Vista Media Center Interface : Right now , the sore place on the Xbox ’s user port are the euphony , pic and video browsing menus . They ’re wearisome when it comes to large amount of money of sensitive , even when stored on the Xbox . Maybe it ’s not so bad , but it pales in comparability with Vista ’s Media Center user interface , which can be accessed only when you ’re using the Xbox as an extender to a Vista PC . We ’d like that interface for playing back media on the Xbox as well . We know they did n’t do this because they wanted to keep the whole UI consistent , but right now it light apart when doing anything beyond the very canonic .
That awe-inspiring crossbar , which could be the only prison term in story where Microsoft has scoop Apple ’s UI ( see Front Row ) , should somehow be integrated more tightly into Xbox ’s canonical media playback . I ’m not saying it would be sluttish , but it would be nice to not have to reckon on another machine in the house to get at the best media playback UI in the industry , which is already on the box seat . And it would be heavy if you kept the admittance to Internet TV service that compete with Marketplace , if for no other intellect than no undivided supplier of video is going to have everything . Open up the loge just a bit and make it more powerful .
External Hard Drive : The 120 GB HDD will hold back more HD flicks than the four or so that the 20 GB version does . get ’s assume that one day soon you ’ll be able-bodied to bribe movie and not just rip them on an Xbox . Would n’t it be nice to plug in an outside parkway to have even more infinite ? ( Even a serial 3 TiVo has more than double the space . ) I ’m trusted you could work out a copy protection scheme that works as well as the current movement . ( Which is already broken . ) This is in two ways critical if the Xbox is to gain DVR functions .
Cooler Chips : The still unseencooler - running 65 nm chipswould be a sumptuousness for gamers , but are necessary for a automobile meant to stay silent while playing back film . This is decisive for home dramatics geartrain . Even the PS3 agnize this with its generally whisper - unruffled fan organization . ( Folding@Homeactivity turns it into a hair dryer , but I ’m talking about movie playback . )
https://gizmodo.com/xbox-360-elite-interview-with-microsofts-albert-penell-247635
https://gizmodo.com/xbox-360s-dvd-playback-stunningly-bad-233490
Built in HD - videodisk drive : The external was a great rise ; a consumer - affordable , hedged bet on an untested tech . Well , both Blu - irradiation and HD DVD are entrenched . And a special edition Xbox for the home theater should have the format of alternative inside . But while I ’m wishing and asking , let ’s make it a threefold formatting player for Blu - ray compatibility , and give it burning capabilities for archiving DVR shows ( Like a Vista box . )
A Docked Alternative : It would be swell to see all this stuff in a exclusive loge , evocative of Japan ’s special version PS2 with living elbow room medium functions , thePSX . But for honest marketshare , I ’d wish to see an ascent dock with the same setup as the special edition , include extra store , WiFi 802.11N , card lector , CableCard slot and the proper AV inputs and output worthy of a home plate theatre of operations machine , as well as a built - in HD and burn ocular drive .
Of of course , if this affair ever hail out , all the elect possessor will really have something to grouse about . no matter , the darling Xbox has a lot more potential than just as a gaming machine . compose me your thought and I ’ll update this post with more compliments .
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