XBox 360 Greatness

[slycat]

I've had my 360 a while now and have really been enjoying all the features the thing has to offer over just playing games. However today I found two more things the XBox can do which has really suprised me. Firstly, with my NAS (which currently holds all my videos and music) enabled with a UPNP server, I was suprised to find that the XBox just picked it up and was able to play all the MP3s (not OGGs sadly) from the device without any further intevention. This saves me ripping music to the XBox hard drive should I wish to listen to different music as part of a game's soundtrack (Like I often do with Uno as it has particularily annoying music). The box didn't pick up the videos I had on the NAS despite there being some formats it should be able to play (and can using Media Center Extender) but this isn't a major thing.

One further thing I found which totally suprised me was while using the visualiser made by Jeff Minter which is part of the XBox dashboard, the Live Vision web cam picks up any movement and displays the edges of any moving object as part of the visualiser creating some really fantastic effects. Although you can feel a bit of a prat waving your arms around in front of the cam :)

Needless to say, this box continues to suprise me. Looking forward to getting Gears of War and playing that online soon too. Looks like I may need to get the HD-DVD player as well considering it also works on the PC. Shame I just never seem to have enough time for everything... got Every Extend Extra for the PSP today but I've not even had a chance to complete the first level.

Comments

[m-tiger.livejournal.com]

The Xbox Live Vision Camera works on PC as well. It's actually a pretty decent webcam.