Microsoft Makes Xbox-Centered Living Room Push with SmartGlass Wireless Streaming and More

[faroZ06]

I know it, I don't need to search the wikipedia for it

Can you understand that when someone ask if there was something like Airtunes and someones answers DLNA it must mean that there was products using DLNA?



And?

"There are over nine thousand products on the market that are DLNA Certified.[11] This includes TVs, DVD and Blu-ray players, games consoles, digital media players, photo frames, cameras, NAS devices, PCs, mobile handsets, and more."

Which DLNA devices are similar to Apple's AirTunes and came before it? There is a wide range of DLNA devices. Saying "DLNA" does not narrow it down enough.

 

[needfx]

Yes? I mean, that's just Kinect. If I were in the other room with my 360 on, I could watch Jackie Chan Adventures on Netflix without ever touching a remote.

you mean kinect already has voice commands?

 

[Oletros]

"There are over nine thousand products on the market that are DLNA Certified.[11] This includes TVs, DVD and Blu-ray players, games consoles, digital media players, photo frames, cameras, NAS devices, PCs, mobile handsets, and more."

Which DLNA devices are similar to Apple's AirTunes and came before it? There is a wide range of DLNA devices. Saying "DLNA" does not narrow it down enough.

I give up, I don't know if my English is bad or you're a little slow at comprehension

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you mean kinect already has voice commands?

Yes, it has had them since the Kinnect launch

 

[thejadedmonkey]

Is the slim the new 250GB matte finish model? Does it really have a silent fan?

Both of my Xboxes were bought around with the time Kinect launched. One purchased with Kinect, one without. I think the one without has a Kinect port. But both are noisy as hell the moment you turn them on.

My girlfriend likes to switch the TV input from my xbox to cable without turning my xbox off. If it wasn't for the little green light, I really wouldn't be able to tell it's on over the TV and refrigerator in the other room.

 

[MobiusStrip]

Microsoft, always one step behind the Apple.

Same old tired, ignorant crap. I'm sure you were saying this for most of the last 15 years, where you could plug a new printer into a Windows machine and it would detect it and start the installation process... and doing the same thing with a Mac would result in... NOTHING HAPPENING, no printer detected.

And that's just one example of hundreds that we Mac users have had to work around. Hey, Apple just now fixed (in Lion) one of the most idiotic design defects in the history of GUI-based computing: the inability to resize windows from their edges (or any corner, for that matter).

So keep regurgitating the played-out lies that mark people like you as completely ignorant of computing and design.

 

[baryon]

Internet Explorer 10 is a lot more standard-compliant, GPU hardware accelerated, and extremely fast. I am using right it right now on Windows 8. It has 100/100 on Acid3 and currently 317 on HTM5TEST (Safari 5.2 is 370, Chrome Canary is 442). And it makes perfect sense for them to make a browser for the Xbox. They now have Kinect and SmartGlass to make TV-based browsers a lot more usable than today.

And you know what? Look at all of the -webkit and -mozilla specific extensions. They are a pain in the ass.

Yes the extensions are indeed all crap, but we don't have to use them. I didn't know that MS made IE so much better, all I know is that whatever the current version on the quite new Windows 7 computers at my work is absolutely horrible. Not because web pages don't show correctly, but because it's slow and non-responsive, while Chrome is much more responsive on the same machines. IE tends to ask a lot of questions too, and that yellow bar at the top is still freaking annoying when it comes up with "this website is not safe" or "are you sure you want to click that?", well, you get the idea, Microsoft style annoying messages. This may be an older version of IE, I'm not sure, but I couldn't imagine it being too old as this is Windows 7.

 

[Renzatic]

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You're probably using IE8, which was what was boxed with Windows 7. Even though, for various reasons, I don't use IE9 and 10 all that much, I do have to admit they're both pretty snappy browsers these days.

 

[hipnetic]

Already over 10 pages, so my comment probably won't be read by too many, and I don't even know where to start, but I'm a happy owner of Apple products (including Apple TV 2/3's) and XBox 360's, so I wanted to chime in.

I'm definitely happy to hear about Smart Glass, but it's obviously a response to AirPlay. Since I'm not the CEO of Apple, I really don't care if they blatantly copy Apple's ideas, in fact I welcome encourage all companies to blatantly copy (and hopefully improve on) great ideas by other companies.

As for me, I have a central computer running Windows 7 with Windows Media Center, connected to an HDHomeRun Prime CableCard tuner. It works great at recording all my shows from my Comcast subscription. And I've got a few XBox 360's around the house which can serve as Windows Media Center Extenders and play live TV, set new recordings, etc. Those work great, too.

I was able to score a couple of XBox 360's late last year after Black Friday (or whatever it's called) for about $150 each, with Kinect, too. The Slim is a lot quieter than the previous model, and a little smaller, but it's still *HUGE* and *LOUD* in comparison to the ATV2/3. and I don't think that the underlying graphics power is any more powerful. And if you're not buying it on some special sale, it's also more expensive than the ATV2/3.

The funny thing is that the best feature, for me, with the XBox 360 is how it works as a Media Center Extender, yet this is the feature that MS seems to want to deprecate. The latest features (Netflix, Comcast, Amazon Prime) all run under the native XBox 360 interface (not under the Media Center UI) and require the added-cost Live Gold membership.

I think it should be interesting to see what Apple announces this year. AirPlay already does everything Smart Glass offers, from what I can see, and Smart Glass is a future release. I'm sure that Apple, with their billions in the bank, hasn't been sitting still, so I suspect we'll see some new exciting features added to the Apple TV this year. Maybe it will be a full-blown SDK for developers to offer 3rd party apps, maybe a game controller and a focus on gaming, maybe NFL Sunday Ticket, maybe better iTunes TV rental offerings/pricing, maybe even a true DVR competitor (possibly related to a new AirPort Extreme box and HDHomeRun Prime compatibility). But I don't think it will be nothing.

If nothing else, even if they have been resting on their laurels (which I don't think they have been), if they do nothing this year and MS makes a comeback, Apple has so much money, and such a big lead, that this would serve as a 'kick-in-the-butt' and will end up resulting in some real improvements next year.

At this point, if I'm investing stock (and I *am*, a little) Apple is the company I'm investing in, not MS.

 

[TLekhi1]

xbox 360

I think the Xbox 360 is brilliant and has superb quality! I would recemmend an xbox 360 becuase it has better quality and the controller is bigger which means you can have a lot more control when playing games and you can be successful in the games you play to achieve better things!