A real live XBox 360 at IDF
Tags: Microsoft, Games, Gaming, XBox 360, IDF, Marketing
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Near the Media Center PC demonstration here at IDF, Microsoft actually showed a working XBox 360, shown here in a cellphone snapshot. Much of the time, the XBox was working as a wired media center extender showing content streaming from a dual-core media center elsewhere in the booth. But users have been walking by and using the remote control to explore its menus and it does seem to be working.
So that's the good news. The bad news is that the high def video stream it was displaying was quite jerky. I asked about it, and the Microsoft rep said that this was only hardware revision 5, that they were going to get 6 soon, and they hoped that would cure the dropped frame problem. They also said that they probably won't go to full production until around revision 10. As I have commented previously, that's a very tight schedule if they expect to ship 1.6 million units this holiday season. But working hardware is an encouraging sign.
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Near the Media Center PC demonstration here at IDF, Microsoft actually showed a working XBox 360, shown here in a cellphone snapshot. Much of the time, the XBox was working as a wired media center extender showing content streaming from a dual-core media center elsewhere in the booth. But users have been walking by and using the remote control to explore its menus and it does seem to be working.
So that's the good news. The bad news is that the high def video stream it was displaying was quite jerky. I asked about it, and the Microsoft rep said that this was only hardware revision 5, that they were going to get 6 soon, and they hoped that would cure the dropped frame problem. They also said that they probably won't go to full production until around revision 10. As I have commented previously, that's a very tight schedule if they expect to ship 1.6 million units this holiday season. But working hardware is an encouraging sign.
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