My girlfriend is planning on buying me an X-box 360 for my birthday in a few weeks (I have been droping subtle hints for a few weeks now!). Anyway I have the old one but no nothing about the 360. So I have a few questions -
Which is the best one to buy (Some have HD drives??) ?
Where's the cheapest place to buy them from?
Does it have wireless built in so I can connect to my home network?
Can they play the old xbox games?
Iain
Which Xbox 360 Which One?
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, Jan 10 2007 03:49 PM
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Posted 10 January 2007 - 03:49 PM
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Posted 10 January 2007 - 03:54 PM
Which is the best one to buy (Some have HD drives??) ?
The "Premium Pack" comes with HDD, wireless controller etc
Where's the cheapest place to buy them from?
There are often deals on everywhere, I think Game were doing the Prem Pack + PGR3 for £249?
Does it have wireless built in so I can connect to my home network?
Not as standard, it comes with an ethernet port, but you can add either a MSoft Wireless adaptor (£40ish) or an "ethernet to wireless bridge" (£25ish)
Can they play the old xbox games?
Yes, most of the popular ones.
There is a list on xbox.com of the "backwards compatible ones"
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Posted 10 January 2007 - 05:02 PM
Which is the best one to buy (Some have HD drives??) ?
The "Premium Pack" comes with HDD, wireless controller etc
Where's the cheapest place to buy them from?
There are often deals on everywhere, I think Game were doing the Prem Pack + PGR3 for £249?
Does it have wireless built in so I can connect to my home network?
Not as standard, it comes with an ethernet port, but you can add either a MSoft Wireless adaptor (£40ish) or an "ethernet to wireless bridge" (£25ish)
Can they play the old xbox games?
Yes, most of the popular ones.
There is a list on xbox.com of the "backwards compatible ones"
Brilliant, thanks for the reply.
Whats the difference between a wireless adapter and wireless bridge? Do they do the same thing?
I already have a wirelss modem router set up in the flat.
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Posted 10 January 2007 - 05:07 PM
A wireless adaptor goes from USB (onthe rear of the 360) to Wifi.
A Wireless Bridge, goes from the ethernet port on the 360 to Wifi.
Basically, the wireless bridge can be used to turn ANY ethernet device into a wireless device.
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Posted 10 January 2007 - 05:36 PM
A wireless adaptor goes from USB (onthe rear of the 360) to Wifi.
A Wireless Bridge, goes from the ethernet port on the 360 to Wifi.
Basically, the wireless bridge can be used to turn ANY ethernet device into a wireless device.
Are there any advantages of using one over another?
While i'm on the 360 topic, does it play HD (or Blue ray) dvd's?
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Posted 10 January 2007 - 05:38 PM
The Xbox plays HD-DVD if you buy the HD-DVD Addon drive, about £130.
Blueray is Sony's bag.
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Posted 10 January 2007 - 05:43 PM
A wireless adaptor goes from USB (onthe rear of the 360) to Wifi.
A Wireless Bridge, goes from the ethernet port on the 360 to Wifi.
Basically, the wireless bridge can be used to turn ANY ethernet device into a wireless device.
Are there any advantages of using one over another?
While i'm on the 360 topic, does it play HD (or Blue ray) dvd's?
Iain
I would recomend getting a wireless bridge cos it will be cheaper!
The xbox 360 will play HD-DVD but you have to buy the HD-DVD drive which is a further £120 I think.
I bought one recently and found that Game Station did the best deal at the moment. I got the premuim pack - so hard disk, HD cable, wireless controller etc... PGR3, the arcade pack, an additional wireless controller and any other 3 games for £339.99.
Haven't looked since christmas so there may be other deals out there!
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Posted 10 January 2007 - 05:45 PM
The Xbox plays HD-DVD if you buy the HD-DVD Addon drive, about £130.
Blueray is Sony's bag.
Yeah I knew it one or the other.
£130 ouch, although even with the xbox thats still cheaper (i think?) than a stand alone hd dvd player?
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Posted 11 January 2007 - 03:03 PM
The Xbox plays HD-DVD if you buy the HD-DVD Addon drive, about £130.
Blueray is Sony's bag.
Yeah I knew it one or the other.
£130 ouch, although even with the xbox thats still cheaper (i think?) than a stand alone hd dvd player?
Iain
Alot cheaper.
Even though i begrudge the £550 price of the PS3 getting it will give you a Blue-Ray player thats about £500 cheaper than any others on the market.
Im just going to wait and see which formatt wins out. Although i have a skeeking supision that both will do equaly well and we will have to cope with multiple format sections in our shops.
sorry slightly off topic there but anyway yes the drive will work out cheaper than any HD-DVD drive on the market!
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Posted 11 January 2007 - 03:24 PM
The Xbox plays HD-DVD if you buy the HD-DVD Addon drive, about £130.
Blueray is Sony's bag.
The HD-DVD plugs into your PC as well , so plenty of backup software will be available to rip . I see HD-DVD as being the PC standard, so HD-DVD burners cannot be far away. With PC market volumes for HD-DVD burners, I cannot see Blueray surviving.
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Posted 11 January 2007 - 04:12 PM
The Xbox plays HD-DVD if you buy the HD-DVD Addon drive, about £130.
Blueray is Sony's bag.
The HD-DVD plugs into your PC as well , so plenty of backup software will be available to rip . I see HD-DVD as being the PC standard, so HD-DVD burners cannot be far away. With PC market volumes for HD-DVD burners, I cannot see Blueray surviving.
I agree, Microsoft have got way more influence on the market with that side of things. I can see Blue ray being sony only. Have any other companies invested in Blueray? Whats the blanace at the moment?
I recently read about a maunfacturer (i forget which) making multi format HD Dvd's that will play both formats.
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Posted 11 January 2007 - 04:51 PM
The Xbox plays HD-DVD if you buy the HD-DVD Addon drive, about £130.
Blueray is Sony's bag.
The HD-DVD plugs into your PC as well , so plenty of backup software will be available to rip . I see HD-DVD as being the PC standard, so HD-DVD burners cannot be far away. With PC market volumes for HD-DVD burners, I cannot see Blueray surviving.
I agree, Microsoft have got way more influence on the market with that side of things. I can see Blue ray being sony only. Have any other companies invested in Blueray? Whats the blanace at the moment?
I recently read about a maunfacturer (i forget which) making multi format HD Dvd's that will play both formats.
Iain
Microsoft is not the developer of HD-DVD (i cant remember who it is mind)
but because of the 360 and because of the name (people will emediately associate HD-DVD with DVD so the normal consumer will be easily influenced in to buying a HD-DVD drive rather than "Blue-Ray"
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