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Teeter posted:Is that what's going on? It keeps disconnecting me while I watch Netflix, which then immediately quits playback because I'm not signed in with a valid Live account. I dismissed it because I thought it was router or network issue initially but now it's starting to become bullshit because it's something on Live's end. Oh hey, this happened to me, too. Only once so far, I just figured it was a random bug.
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Arrath posted:Oh hey, this happened to me, too. Only once so far, I just figured it was a random bug. Same for me. It'd boot me out of iPlayer every 10-15 minutes. Doesn't even have the courtesy to save your space! So rude.
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| # ? Jan 5, 2013 00:30 |
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Is it possible / advisable to leave the hard drive from my old 360 hooked up to my Slim via the transfer cable and use the data off of it? I cheaped out and got the 4GB model because my old one red-ringed on me today.
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| # ? Jan 6, 2013 01:34 |
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Rubiks Pubes posted:Is it possible / advisable to leave the hard drive from my old 360 hooked up to my Slim via the transfer cable and use the data off of it? I cheaped out and got the 4GB model because my old one red-ringed on me today. I wouldn't. I've seen some strange things happen with transfer cables. I'd just pick up a USB drive or a new HDD. If anyone needs Xbox help, send me a message on Live at Agoat944. I'm an Ambassador, and I love helping people out. Edit: Or PM me on here, if you prefer. 
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| # ? Jan 6, 2013 01:36 |
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Rubiks Pubes posted:Is it possible / advisable to leave the hard drive from my old 360 hooked up to my Slim via the transfer cable and use the data off of it? I cheaped out and got the 4GB model because my old one red-ringed on me today. You can take the old hard drive out of the case and slot it into your new slim 360. You'll just need to secure it from wobbling around in there.
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| # ? Jan 6, 2013 02:20 |
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Tremors posted:You can take the old hard drive out of the case and slot it into your new slim 360. You'll just need to secure it from wobbling around in there. Oh really? Got a writeup or anything on how to do it? I'd just as soon do that as buy a new HDD Edit: 9 years of being on this board and I'm still too stupid to Google before I ask a question like that. Temporarily rigged it up, and am winning a Chinese knockoff hard drive enclosure on eBay which will make it a little less janky. Rubiks Pubes fucked around with this message at Jan 6, 2013 around 03:41 |
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Rubiks Pubes posted:Oh really? Got a writeup or anything on how to do it? I'd just as soon do that as buy a new HDD That's exactly what I did to upgrade a 4GB unit I picked up on the cheap, works great.
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| # ? Jan 6, 2013 03:44 |
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I'm debating doing the 4 GB + old drive 'upgrade' myself, as I have two Xboxes currently: a 4-year old 120GB Elite that's still creaking along, and a 4GB Slim I got this summer as part of MS's back to school promo. I'd held off on swapping it out because the drive is 4 years old and I figured if I put a drive in it I'd rather use a new one, but I play most games on PC now (and I'll probably be buying the new Xbox coming this fall) so I figure why the hell not. I did have a question though: if I take the drive off the Elite but still want to use it for Netflix and the like, I'll have to use a USB drive, right? Are there any problems with running video streaming apps off a USB drive?
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| # ? Jan 6, 2013 17:57 |
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Right now, I have a 360 Elite wirelessly connected to an ASUS RT-N13U. When I shut off my 360, it kills the internet on the router and I have to reset the router in order to resume using the internet on my other devices. Anybody else have this problem?
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| # ? Jan 7, 2013 01:14 |
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Geno posted:Right now, I have a 360 Elite wirelessly connected to an ASUS RT-N13U. When I shut off my 360, it kills the internet on the router and I have to reset the router in order to resume using the internet on my other devices. Anybody else have this problem? Make sure your ports are forwarded correctly. http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-...-used-xbox-live Post back with your results!
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Why are you asking in the Xbox 360 thread instead of the ASUS RT-N13U thread?
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| # ? Jan 7, 2013 03:52 |
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Agoat posted:Make sure your ports are forwarded correctly. Nope, didn't work.
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This stuff was apparently in the leaked "720 document" from a while back, but Microsoft actually showed it off at CES today - IllumiRoom, which shows stuff from whatever you're playing all over your goddamned walls - looks pretty cool. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re1EatGRV0w http://research.microsoft.com/en-us...cts/illumiroom/ Microsoft posted:IllumiRoom is a proof-of-concept system from Microsoft Research. It augments the area surrounding a television screen with projected visualizations to enhance the traditional living room entertainment experience. Tohovi fucked around with this message at Jan 9, 2013 around 21:56 |
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I can just see me convincing my wife that we need to buy a projector to go along with our 55" TV. 
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| # ? Jan 9, 2013 22:06 |
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That's pretty awesome. I can see it being useful for adding an extra bit of spatial awareness (as opposed to actually using it as a map or anything), but I really can't see that as a released item unless there's some sort of revolution in projector tech/prices.
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| # ? Jan 9, 2013 23:57 |
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BonoMan posted:That's pretty awesome. I can see it being useful for adding an extra bit of spatial awareness (as opposed to actually using it as a map or anything), but I really can't see that as a released item unless there's some sort of revolution in projector tech/prices. Yeah, I think that is really neat, but I don't think it is mounting a 1k projector and running cords to it in a room where I'm already using a TV neat.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 03:55 |
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More peripherals!  The worst part is that you can't even avoid this poo poo by not buying it because developers have to shoehorn in useless gimmicks that detract from the rest of gaming. "Better with Kinect", my rear end
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 04:46 |
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Teeter posted:More peripherals!
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 17:07 |
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coyo7e posted:Which games were those? The new Need for Speed: MW is a great example. It seems like I can't have a loving conversation in my house or with anyone without changing my tires, bringing up the map, or dropping out of the race.
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Lord Wexia posted:The new Need for Speed: MW is a great example. It seems like I can't have a loving conversation in my house or with anyone without changing my tires, bringing up the map, or dropping out of the race. Frankly I wish the voice recognition was more prevalent in all non-gaming areas of the UI, it's annoying to watch netflix and be able to verbally command it, but put in a DVD and no dice. 
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Lord Wexia posted:The new Need for Speed: MW is a great example. It seems like I can't have a loving conversation in my house or with anyone without changing my tires, bringing up the map, or dropping out of the race. I don't have a problem with it accidentally doing anything since the Kinect can't recognize loving jack poo poo without the volume at mute. It's ridiculous. It's impossible to use any voice commands with normal game volumes. Makes the feature absolutely worthless.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 17:38 |
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BonoMan posted:I don't have a problem with it accidentally doing anything since the Kinect can't recognize loving jack poo poo without the volume at mute. It's ridiculous. It's impossible to use any voice commands with normal game volumes. Makes the feature absolutely worthless. I think this might be a user error situation or a game developer issue because with the Kinect properly calibrated, I had no problem using voice commands in ME3 with a surround sound home theater setup cranked up to a fairly loud volume. The tech is sound.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 18:02 |
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DrNutt posted:I think this might be a user error situation or a game developer issue because with the Kinect properly calibrated, I had no problem using voice commands in ME3 with a surround sound home theater setup cranked up to a fairly loud volume. The tech is sound. Setting up the audio calibration is vital, though, and if you didn't do that, were sloppy/hurried about doing it, or if you maybe have an air conditioner or other loud device running nearby, it may not recognize you at all.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 18:14 |
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coyo7e posted:Yeah, unless I have the TV volume uncomfortably loud I have absolutely no issues with it recognizing my and my roommate's voice commands, even from the other room. If the TV is too loud I have to cup my hands and raise my voice at it or turn down the volume, but it works brilliantly. Yeah, I find that I need to rerun the calibration if I change the volume in the room up or down by about ten decibals to get the best results. I always had fun shouting at Garrus, though.
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DrNutt posted:I think this might be a user error situation or a game developer issue because with the Kinect properly calibrated, I had no problem using voice commands in ME3 with a surround sound home theater setup cranked up to a fairly loud volume. The tech is sound. I've never had a problem with it in Netflix, so I wonder if it's Need For Speed. That's the only game I've tried it with. edit: Also there's no way I'm recalibrating it if I change my volume. That's ridiculous.
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BonoMan posted:I've never had a problem with it in Netflix, so I wonder if it's Need For Speed. That's the only game I've tried it with. Hey, that's just how the technology works. If you change the volume by a wide enough margin, it's not going to work right. I mean, you don't have to change it every time and your mileage may vary, but that's just the way it works.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 18:50 |
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I just calibrate it at the highest volume I'm likely to play at, works perfectly for me. The real killer is changes to the acoustics of your room, moving speakers, furniture, whatever.
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homeless snail posted:I just calibrate it at the highest volume I'm likely to play at, works perfectly for me. The real killer is changes to the acoustics of your room, moving speakers, furniture, whatever. I've never had any problems since I've been single, because I just play on max volume all the time! 
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 19:35 |
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Speaking of Netflix stuff, is there an easy way to stream from say your living room to your bedroom? Thats my setup because I have the Xbox in another room so I can hard connect it to my router and so the kids can play it. But I'd like to be able to watch Netflix and stuff in the bedroom.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 21:59 |
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Short of running an HDMI cable from your living room to your bedroom, you actually need some sort of player connected to the other TV to make it work. If all you want is Netflix, you can pick up one of a myriad of basic devices that will have Netflix support and WiFi for ~$50.
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vulturesrow posted:Speaking of Netflix stuff, is there an easy way to stream from say your living room to your bedroom? Thats my setup because I have the Xbox in another room so I can hard connect it to my router and so the kids can play it. But I'd like to be able to watch Netflix and stuff in the bedroom.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 22:14 |
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coyo7e posted:Haha that's awesome, no option to disable I assume. My roommate tends to be pretty loud and he randomly sets off the xbox commands, but I haven't played any games where the Kinect was required or would do stuff I didn't want (I skipped it in ME3, and avoided poo poo that that ghost recon future soldier game like the plague). I generally like the 'Better with Kinect' implementations thus far, particularly Skyrim's, but it is a little annoying that if I'm ever not playing by myself in certain games (like Mass Effect 3) I basically have to turn off the Kinect in the dashboard menus before I start up a game. I don't mind optional voice commands in the least if you make enabling/disabling them less of a hassle (e.g., you can toggle voice commands in Skyrim's start menu, while in ME3 they're always on so long as your Kinect is on too).
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| # ? Jan 11, 2013 01:53 |
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Ironically I like the Kinect features in the "Better with Kinect" games or voice-controlling Netflix than the actual Kinect games that require the sensor. I'm still not going to pay $150 to yell at my tv to avoid button presses in Skyrim or Mass Effect 3, but if they made a dumbed down version that was just voice controls I could be tempted.
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| # ? Jan 11, 2013 02:39 |
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How do the Netflix controls work? Do they allow you to avoid using that awful keyboard? I can't even begin to fathom how they thought a horizontal a-z layout was a good idea, or why it's necessary in the first place when the global xbox keyboard would have been passable
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Blake Krikorian creator of the Slingbox has just been tapped to be the Xbox Division's new VP: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013...E90910320130110
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| # ? Jan 11, 2013 04:17 |
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How long does it take for stuff to show up on Xbox Rewards? I should have gotten my "birthday gift", and points for renewing Gold, neither of which is showing up.
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| # ? Jan 11, 2013 19:45 |
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Teeter posted:How do the Netflix controls work? Do they allow you to avoid using that awful keyboard? I can't even begin to fathom how they thought a horizontal a-z layout was a good idea, or why it's necessary in the first place when the global xbox keyboard would have been passable I personally consider the kinect to be a funky television remote at this point, and am totally satisfied with it, outside of its inconsistent support in different apps and areas.
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| # ? Jan 11, 2013 21:39 |
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coyo7e posted:I personally consider the kinect to be a funky television remote at this point, and am totally satisfied with it, outside of its inconsistent support in different apps and areas. Except when there is dialogue in the movie that the Kinect thinks is you saying "Xbox".
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| # ? Jan 11, 2013 23:09 |
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coyo7e posted:You get the gesture controls, or you can do the "next next next play 3" type thing, I generally use my controller to find the movie and then use the voice commands to pause/rewind/etc during the movie itself. I love using voice commands to control video playback because my friends are weird and they get freaked out by it.
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Sieg posted:Except when there is dialogue in the movie that the Kinect thinks is you saying "Xbox". If you ever experience that, it means you need to run the Kinect tuner again. Mishearing something said in a conversation can definitely happen, but the technology should ignore any sound coming from the Xbox itself.
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