If you have a Wii I want to be friend. You can either view my what little is shown at MiiPlaza.net or just add my wii code to your address book. Just make sure to tell me so I can add you.
Wii Code# 5194-0211-3676-0825
I’d also like to say Nintendo better fix this whole code thing and make up usernames for people. Because a 1216 digit code is horrible to have to remember and share with friends. Making it worse the Wii doesn’t even do friend confirmations. Both users have to add one another to the address book in order for it to work. What a hassle. On XBox live I had a gamertag and if I wanted to add a friend I’d just type their name in and they would get a message confirming the request and vise versa. It shouldn’t be that hard.
At least the wii does e-mailing, if you wanted to spend 10 minutes writing a short message to someone that could only reply to your wii address. Making e-mail worse if you actually had a real e-mail address like I’d expect from every wii owner.
Microsoft’s Xbox Live Video: HDTV and HD movie downloads for your 360 – Engadget
The service is called Xbox Live Video, and the fall update enables customers to spend their Microsoft points on standard and HD television from CBS, MTV, Comedy Central, VH1, Turner, and UFC, as well as HD movies from Warner Bros., Paramount, and so on. We’re still a little in shock, ourselves, that Microsoft was able to in one fell swoop hit TiVo, Apple, Netflix, and a handful of others, but looking at Live over the last year, the move isn’t that massively surprising. Of course, not even the vision of on-demand HD movies and TV downloads in six million homes at the flick of a switch could be without its variety of niggling concerns; being that we all know the devil’s in the details, click on to get the particulars of the service.
This is such great news. I thought it was a rumer but it’s confirmed now. The first two problems that came to my mind, ABC and Disney wont ever be on board and you can’t take the movies anywhere unless someone else has a 360.
…over 1000 hours of video will make its way onto Live for rental at about $4 a go, or for purchase (at an unstated price). Hard to imagine Xbox 360 doing for PC-free online movie downloads what all the other companies couldn’t or haven’t (we’re looking at you TiVo, Netflix, iTV, etc.), but then again Microsoft did start up with that Xbox Live music video download thing last year. Seriously though, what a coup would that be if Microsoft swooped in to make the Xbox 360 the premier digital content hub…
After finding out for sure that the Wii wont play DVDs the cost of the Wii compared to my 360 is practically the same. And if MS did something like this it would help me not have to buy an iTV or even their HD-DVD drive add-on. Wonderful rumor, I hope it’s true.
What’s wrong here?
Sony claims Xbox 360 requires HD DVD, etc., thus costs $700 – Engadget … Read More »
October 19
To follow up with my previous post, I’m surprised at how close I was.
They announced iTunes 7 with movies
They announced the new Nano’s with new casing and sizes
They announced new iPods with a new size increase
They did release an update to Quicktime but nothing substantial like I mentioned
And what I wanted to see was a Media Extender and they pre-announced it. The thing looks awesome and I would consider it if it did xvid and divx streaming, which I doubt. Because if I’m going to convert something I might as well convert it to a DVD or something. I’m also not likely to buy it if I keep my Xbox 360 after the Wii comes out. I do love how it has HD component hookups, you don’t see that on new HD devices anymore. I’ll post on this later, maybe when we see more specs but a device like this is something I really want, it something that could replace our current cable DVR and service altogether since we could just download HD shows the day after without having to pay dumb cable bills.
Other announcements were the new shuffle, which looks awesome. Way better then the old design.
And the iPod wouldn’t see much of an update, making me not care about a brighter screen. Unless I missed something and it could playback on a TV at the new high-res and the 5G version (the one I have) can’t.
I just downloaded the demo of prey for the XBOX 360 and boy am I feeling really nauseous. Last week the IT crowd at GL got together to game at Alpine and after a couple hours of first-person shooter mayhem I became extremely nauseous too and tonight it only took 5 minutes. I think it might be the games being too fast and/or too cramped.
I really don’t know what it is, whether it’s a fast game or if it’s a corridor game; tonight it was a dark tight-corridor horror game that was really fast, last week it was CoD2 which isn’t dark but we were running through buildings pretty fast. Maybe it’s a good thing that I can’t physically play these games anymore because with the few shooters coming out that I intended to get are no longer options and I might just have to deal with downloading the free demos.
A great column on all the shortcomings of Vista. Here are a few:
I[n] some ways, Windows Vista actually will exceed Mac OS X and Linux, but not to the depth we were promised. Instead, Windows Vista will do what so many other Windows releases have done, and simply offer consumers and business users a few major changes and many subtle or minor updates. That’s not horrible. It’s just not what was promised.
A couple weeks ago I noticed Costco had the XBox 360 and I hesitated more then once. I always said I’d wait after the bestbuy debacle. What made me follow through with this purchase was Costco’s awesome return policy, I said to myself, “I’ll use it for a couple weeks and if I don’t use it enough to warrant the purchase I’ll take it back”. It’s been just a week and I don’t see myself taking it back. Key reasons:
This feature alone makes up for the purchase because the not only does it work beautiful with the 360 but I can get rid of hardware and use unused hardware. The “out with the old” falls on the AverLink player, now listed on eBay. The hardware that just was newly dusted was “Yellow”, my big yellow PC that I made a while back that cost me a pretty penny when the AMD64 first came out. Now it’s a mid-high end PC that I just loaded Media Center addition on and it’s feeling fresh.
One thing Media Center lacks which I hate is XVid and DivX support. I installed this though and it works pretty good, I just wish it was supported like the Averlink especially since I can’t get HD now. But it’s still early and we might see a better workaround.
A couple other things the media center does which I love is Podcasting through newsgator. It limits you to three feeds but an awesome workaround is to create an Odeo account to splice all the feeds together. Then the other two feeds can be used for video feeds. Which reminds me Media Center hates codecs other then windows media, I wish if the computer played a codec thn MC would play the damn thing and stream it.
Everyone saying I should just get frontrow running downstairs or MythTV: I rather not. I don’t want a box downstairs that wouldn’t integrate nice (MythTV) and I want to stream the content without having to buy anything more (Mac).
I have G.R.A.W, which is a masterpiece of graphics and game play and I’ve only played it for an hour.
Burnout is the same but better because I can just pick it up and play for 10-15 minutes if I want and it’s been a long time since I’ve laughed or smiled ALONE playing a game, the crashes are great.
PGR, I haven’t even played (it came in the kit from Costco).
And the best for last, Geometry Wars. The first game i bought from XBox Live marketplace (below), it was about $4-5 and it’s so fun. I can only describe it as a 80s space shooter in high-def. The visuals are illuminating and distracting with how cool it looks. Avery likes watching it and it reminds me of fireworks.
Playing games online is the best. And how the dashboard makes it easy to see and connect with friends it only makes it better.
It’s true the MS guys that made the dashboard for the 360 seriously need to go get their hands on Vista before it’s released. Or is that why it was pushed back AGAIN.
Buy old Sega games (I think it’s coming since I haven’t seen any yet), smaller games like Geometry wars, download movie trailers, and the best ever download demos of released and future games.
My habits of a gamer are short and sweat. Demos work out for my benefit perfectly. I just want to play a little anyways and their free, perfect. Boxing was cool, full auto was cool, Online Battle field felt like I was stealing since it was so good and free.
It consolidates my old hardware, brings to life unused computers, gives me free games, dazzles my eyes with high-def goodness, streams music, video, and pics. What else? Nothing other then make Windows MC work like it should.
