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Just as I (finally!) near the point of completing Halo 3 on Heroic, I learn that the add-on Heroic map set is available for free. (Full disclosure: my nine-year-old has already whooped me by completing the last level in Halo 3 at the highest level...
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With all the talk this weekend of HD-DVD (as Reuters noted this weekend ) and that main supported Toshiba "will cease manufacturing HD-DVD equipment" (as reported on Japan's NHK public broadcasting network), interesting to see the increased interest in
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Bloggers and the press are out in force at CES in Las Vegas, tonite covering Bill Gates' keynote at CES 2008 . You can find several entries listed here . Check out video coverage at Microsoft's CES site and on Microsoft PressPass . [More on the keynote
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Remember, this is an external news report, on Dealerscope this morning... Microsoft Preparing Xbox 360 with HD DVD "According to an Australian Web site citing inside sources at Toshiba, that company and Microsoft are at work on a new version of the Xbox
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I missed this article last week. We have an Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel , and one that has taken a back seat to the of Dance Dance Revolution pad. I learned from Gregg Keizer at Computerworld (and various news sites ) that the Wheel should have a free
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It's returned home. Our Xbox 360 that suffered from a severe case of the dreaded three red flashing lights arrived on Friday and is now up and running. Well, not exactly the same Xbox 360: we were informed that the unit we received was a replacement unit,
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This evening whilst trying to set up Dance Dance Revolution for our boys and their friends, we ran into a small problem: no video. Hmmm... Could it be that I set the switch incorrectly on the Xbox 360 Component HD AV Cable ? The cable may be switched
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Netflix chose to develop and offer video on demand (and even hired Anthony Wood , CEO of ReplayTV). Video rental chain Blockbuster is going the route of "buy." Blockbuster announced that they will acquire Movielink , the digital movie download service
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As previously speculated , MSNBC reports that Microsoft will cut the retail price on the Xbox 360 by $50 - that's for the model with a 20GB hard drive. "The company said its most popular console, which comes with a 20-gigabyte hard drive, will cost $349.
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Of interest... the InsideMicrosoft blog news channel says that there's drop coming in the street prices on the Xbox 360... "Leaks are coming at the rate of several a day that an Xbox 360 price drop is imminent, sometime in the next ten days. A Circuit
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In MSN Tech & Gadgets (love that subsite) there's an informative post from by PC World columnist Lincoln Spector on the " Best Products for Streaming Audio and Video With Ease ." "Want to watch your movies in the bedroom or listen to your albums in
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How did I miss this announcement yesterday? (No, not the nearly $1B that SharePoint Server sales generated so far ... just north of $800M to be exact.) Oh, that's right... Work. Xbox 360 HD DVD Player Moves to $179, Adds Five Free HD DVDs "Microsoft Corp.
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As I wrote in an earlier post this week , on the coverage (here in PC Magazine ) of what to do if three red lights flash on your Xbox 360's Ring of Light. Well, here it is Friday the 13th and I'm returning an Xbox 360 for repair. I thought that it may
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OK, I'm officially on vacation (I'm lousy at that) but the weekend has been ripe with questions since the press coverage and Peter Moore's letter on Xbox.com . "What do you think about the Xbox 360 warranty extension?" If you missed it... see the Wall
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Long Zheng reports in his blog earlier this week that "a trademark application in Australia... looks to be for a video-on-demand service from Microsoft yet to be identified has been made available publically." Ars Technica picked up on Zheng's report
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