Jeff Henshaw and David Alles - Xbox 360 and Media Center: Living room of the future

Posted By: scobleizer | Oct 15th, 2005 @ 2:33 AM

This is the first of a series of videos we'll have on the Xbox 360 over the next few months.

You might think that the Xbox 360 is only a game machine. But, here you'll learn it's a lot more than a game machine and that when you plug a Media Center and an Xbox 360 together you get a new kind of entertainment system.

Here, Jeff of the Xbox team, and David, of the Media Center team, tell you about their team's work and the future of media in your home.

If you already have a Media Center, you'll want to get the new Update Rollup 2, released yesterday. It lets you use your Media Center together with the Xbox 360.

Unfortunately this video will not be available to download until Monday. For more, read Charlie Owen's blog -- he works on the Media Center team.

Tags: Windows Media, Windows Media Center, Windows Vista, Xbox

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Schneider

Wow, I can watch videos on up to *5* TVs simulatenously! What a technological marvel!

Oh sorry.... I meant to say "What an artificial limit". Wink

Shame the 360 wont support DivX/XVid ... Guess I will have to wait 6 months until its hacked. Sad

Other than that, Media Centre in the 360 is a great idea.

PS. When are we getting a video on TCM (Trusted Computing Group/Module/Platform) and how the corporations are going to lock down our access to media? Guess thats not quite the sort of feel-good press MS wants on channel 9.

MisterDonut

Just got the roll-up.. One thing I can't figure out: why didn't Microsoft add a function for recording *radio* as well as TV? There are programs on NPR that I'd love to record..

I can't imagine that would be that difficult to do..

clintsinger

Very interesting interview. Being a Media Center user I am completely thrilled with the potential the XBOX 360 has to integrate.

One question that I have is whether the XBOX 360 will also stream the Live TV feed by hijacking the tuner (I have dual tuner). While I typically just watch prerecorded tv (I can't watch tv without jumping over the commercials Big Smile ), sometimes I just want to watch live tv and love the ability to pause it. Of course the XBOX 360 would likely be hooked up to a tv far away from my media center and that tv won't allow me to pause a show; so to get around that I would just watch tv using the tuner from the media center.

Is this even possible?

Cheers,
Clint

PS. Will get get to see some videos where the Xbox 360 is demoed including its Media Center extender capabilities?

LightRider

What's with the jump-cut at 14:40ish?

catchphrase

Why doesn't the Media Center remote support voice control? For example, I would like to press a button ( and/or maybe use a trigger word?) and speak "ESPN" or "Discovery Channel" and have it automatically jump to that channel. I don't know why music devices don't do this either, but I guess their excuse is that it takes to much CPU.. but in the case here, the voice recognition can be offloaded so media center does the actual voice processing logic.

Harlequin

MisterDonut wrote:

Just got the roll-up.. One thing I can't figure out: why didn't Microsoft add a function for recording *radio* as well as TV? There are programs on NPR that I'd love to record..

I can't imagine that would be that difficult to do..

Pretty sure that's for legal/copyright reasons...

scobleizer

LightRider wrote:

What's with the jump-cut at 14:40ish?

Sorry for the edit. The guy I was filming realized he said something wrong about HDTV resolutions and wanted that pulled.

LightRider

It's interesting that you can't take screen caps... Did he mean that for the whole system or just the media presentation portion? What if I wanted to take a screenshot of something that happens in Halo3? I can take screenshots in my PC games, is it so difficult to do so on the XBox?