The Xbox 360 video game console and its powerful, comprehensive entertainment system offer an unprecedented level of digital entertainment experience.
As the web site of Xbox.com Australia points out, the system gives you total control, from dealing with music to TV shows to photos.
In the first place, hardly anything matches the top-rated games played at stunning 16:9 widescreen resolutions of 720p or 1080i, with 5.1 surround sound to match.
All Xbox games follow the same marching order: Support widescreen formatting and 720 progressive scan.
These are requirements, not suggestions. If you have HDTV, you know what it means. Heaven!
The impres
sive catalogue of titles is complemented by the things that you can do with the games. With Xbox LIVE, you can go online and actually chat with family and friends whilst playing, or compete against rivals situated anywhere across the globe.
Make friends and new acquaintances, download trailers and demos or other gaming goodies from Xbox LIVE Marketplace.
Move to the groove
Music buffs will find the multimedia capabilities of the Xbox 360 truly amazing due to the fact that this console and its system software are compatible with a wide range of devices - from portable music players to thumb drives to personal computers running Windows XP Home or Windows XP Media Centre Edition 2005.
Indeed, streaming multimedia content into your TV set comes naturally, like breathing in and breathing out.
You're not limited to just playing or ripping disc content into your hard drive. Using a personal computer, just beam those media files and MP3s through the Xbox 360 and enjoy great sounds.
Use the console controls to build music playlists, receive audio files from compatible gadgets over WiFi or a wired USB connection, and you've turned your Xbox 360 into a jukebox. How can spicing up an evening or event be easier?
If you wish, you can even override a game's soundtrack. Queue up your own sounds and, right on, you've become your own digital disc jockey.
Don't fret about storage creep. Nothing gets transferred into the system; all media remain in one place, and the system can even hunt down title and track information from a huge music database, transforming your music collection into a well-organised library.
Images
Show off your birthday or wedding and honeymoon, vacation or birthday pictures on any TV set with Xbox 360, all that in full glory instead of having everybody crammed around the puny laptop. Better yet, organise them into a slick slide show and earn more applause.
Connect your digital camera or transmit images instantaneously via the Wireless Networking Adapter. Then add special effects for that personalised special touch.
Channel mongrel
Dogs who have Windows Media Centre PCs have the best of both worlds.
Just stream Xbox on-demand movies that have been recorded earlier to watch on your TV, all through your amazing Xbox 360.
Console owners not only enjoy high-quality progressive-scan DVD playback right out of the box, but, also, with Xbox LIVE chat it up with their best friends forever whilst doing so. If they are up to it, they can sing along with friends to their chosen soundtrack.
The Xbox 360 system was specially packaged for integrating with a wireless network from the get go.
But beyond the raves, the bottom line is that this video game console has the power and oomph to anchor your redefined entertainment lifestyle. |
