Andrew's ramblings

Xbox 360 has died a slow and painful death and Microsoft has come to the rescue.

Tags: General, Xbox 360

I hadn't played with the beast for about 6 months, and decided to jump onto my favourite game, Red Dead Redemption. Due to the lack of time the had been a system update, so I had to wait for that to get applied. And then jumped into and tried my best to be as good as I had been, in the multiplayer gang matches.

Mind you I did get my butt handed to me on a platter.

But I noticed something very interesting, the graphics on the machine had turned into a washed out colour, sort of pixelated so to speak with streaks of the colour going across the screen, hence the washed out effect.

No big deal I thought, so I switched the unit off and waited for a few minutes and switched it back on.

Read more | Comments (0) | July 21, 2011

Microsoft can you get anything right?

Tags: General, Xbox 360

Well after having a marathon session, ripping all my cd's over to my HD to be streamed to the Xbox 360. I was annoyed to find that the Xbox 360 has a major flaw that neither the Windows Media player, nor the Playstation 3 seem to suffer from.

Read more | Comments (0) | March 23, 2009

XBox 360 and MCE connections

Tags: Xbox 360

So far I have not been able to do this:-(

I have a main computer running, which is connected to the main router via a wirless card. The Xbox 360 is connect via ethernet to the router, but even with the correct software installed on the PC. The XBox 360 can not share the media it shouold be able to.

I have connected this via ethernet on the PC bypassing the wireless and it all works great, but not if the PC is on a wireless connection. So this means one thing to me. M$ wants us to buy their wireless adapter for it to work, and after I spoke to teck support on a number occasions, that is what they told me. We can not support the XBox 360 if it is not connect by the same means as you want it to connect to.

In laymens terms, if it is entirely wireless their is no problem, if it is entirely wired there will be no problem. But you can not mix the two and have it work.

The on thing I do like about the XBox 360 is updates via Xbox live, and it has been 12 motnhs now and they have not fixed this problem as of yet.

Adding a HD to the Xbox 360

Tags: Xbox 360

One thing that has amazed me with the xbox 360 is storage, microsoft has bent over backwards to help support their OS.

Yet the XBox 360 has no support to adding a USB HD at all, sure you can connect your IPod, you can connect to a MCE. But lets face it, the HD can fill up very fast when one d/loads all the demos and such from MS live.

So why is it that with all the USB HD's now available, that MS when creating the XBox 360 did not think about an external connection of a HD via the USB port.

I can not believe they did not thing of this, maybe it is a well we will release a bigger HD later and charge your second born for the privelage of doing so.

Come on MS how hard would it be, to add extra storage for music, games and demos or even saved games onto a USB HD?