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Link: Using the Xbox 360 for music, movies, pictures and more

Over the weekend I talked about From the Expert Zone: Xbox 360 as a Media Center Extender. A quick visit during a meeting this morning, looking at the Xbox site, showed this connection point on how to… 


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See this link as this page provides more on the features and how to use the Xbox 360 for music, movies, pictures, and more.


Also, see these helpful links from Aaron Stebner’s WebLog:



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From the Expert Zone: Xbox 360 as a Media Center Extender

Got a call this weekend from friends who finally took the plunge and brought home a new Xbox 360. They already have a Media Center PC and they wanted to know how to configure their new game machine as a Media Center Extender.


My response: why read when you can watcn and learn. Just fire up the broadband connection and check out Chris Turkstra’s Expert Zone Support WebCast on just such a scenario: 



“This session provides an overview of the Media Center Extender feature that is included in every Microsoft Xbox 360. With an Xbox 360, a computer that is running Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, and a network, you can extend the Media Center experience – in high definition, including all your TV, pictures, music and videos – to any room in your house. This WebCast will cover computer and network requirements, setup, and the features, end user benefits, and limitations of using Xbox 360 as a Media Center Extender.”



  • Offline viewing download: If you wish to download a copy of this broadcast to your local hard drive for off-line viewing, it’s provided as a separate file (self-extracting .exe) that you can download.

  • Download the presentation: This is a Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt) file.

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HD DVD drive for Xbox 360 at DVD Forum

This week in LA, Kevin Collins from MS showed off HD DVD drive for Xbox 360 at the at the DVD Forum. No pictures as of yet, but CNET reported that…



“The device–about the size of a hardback book–played “The Phantom of the Opera” as Collins pulled up a menu bar to display a few of its navigation and interactive features that can be called up on screen while a movie is playing. Collins said Microsoft’s HD DVD drive will be among the least expensive of the HD DVD players, but he declined to disclose the drive’s retail price.”


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Xbox 360 on call… service centre info

As a friend just found with some issues Xbox 360 Live account activation, a reminder that Xbox Customer Support can be reached on-line at http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/migrationcentral.htm.


And if you run into a hardware problem, call 1-800-4myXbox or go to http://www.xbox.com. If the problems can’t be immediately resolved, you’ll get detais on how to ship the console overnight to a repair center, and Microsoft will ship it back once it’s fixed or ship a replacement.