There was a rumor in the latest EGM that you may be able to D/L some XBOX games onto your HD. Nice concept, don't know how it'll work though since it would eat away your HD space.

I'm sure DirectTV would cost more, right?

MS still has not fixed my LIVE connection either. They were supposed to cal me back Wednesday....just sucks. Hopefulyl they fix this.

Nice idea, but recording 1, I repeat ONE episode of lost will fill that 10GB drive. Tivo functionality seems pretty pointless with a 10gig drive.

Thanks for the info bus. Sounds odd to me, but I guess it makes sense for those that don't have a HDD.

if you could use any external usb hdd to do the dvr functions it would be ok with me.

How big are the Comcast DVR's? If it's 40GB, then mine holds a LOT. I think I have like 5 episodes of Alias on it recorded in HD along with a few other things...I'm only at about 50% full. Maybe it's an 80GB HD in there....

When we record over the air HD on our media center, an hour show is about 9gb.

Your cable or satellite company's DVR fills up faster because you're recording a beefy MPEG-2 stream. The 360 would use VC-1, I'd imagine, and the file sizes would be considerably smaller.

What is VC-1?

If you can use any brand external HDD then this is a sweet idea.

VC-1 is the video codec that Microsoft's using for the movie trailers that are up now.

I don't know what filesize/bitrate Microsoft's using for the trailers that are up now without having the 360 in front of me, but using the HD trailers on Apple's site as a baseline (which probably aren't far off), a half-hour show without commercials (so, 22 minutes) would be around a gig at 720p and around 1.7 gigs at 1080p. An hour show without commercials (around 44 minutes) would be right at 1.9 gigs at 720p and around 3.4 gigs at 1080p. The quality would be a little compromised to make it easy to download, but it should still look really good, and the download time isn't that obscene.

Wouldn't it be possible for them to stream everything? That's what I figured they were doing -- just streaming it.

Isn't it a 20GB HD? I know with all of the stuff that they preload on there, that it is probably around 15GB.

Chris

13GB I read somewhere.

Yeah, MS FINALLY called my back about my 360 not being able to connect to LIVE. I have to send it back AGAIN, but I get a FREE wireless controller and 1 month added back to LIVE.

Good for you. I hope it all works out!

In my case I haven't been able to play my XBox 360 for almost 2 weeks, because I have had my 60" HDTV out for repairs and it's killing me and the kids around the 'hood' not being able to play the XBox Live Arcade games.

Chris

According to that quote, they'd stream standard-definition stuff. High-definition would have to be downloaded.

Hicks is right. 13GB. After a few Arcade games, a handful of save games, & 1 or 2 demos, you are already under 10.

It would be different if that 7GB was able to be used.

Well, if you delete all the pre-loaded junk and remove your demos when you're through with 'em, you're most of the way there.

I still have all the preloaded stuff on my hard drive, along with more songs, most of the game demos available, 5 arcade games, and the Mission Impossible 3 trailor and I still have 7GB left. I don't see how people are filling up there hard drives already. Unless they have a ton of songs on it I guess.

What junk should be deleted to free up space on the HDD?

Deleting the pre-loaded crap nets you 13GB if I'm not mistaken. I think it starts with 12GB available.

I still have 10GB myself, its just BS that out of a 20GB drive you can only use 13GB. I understand there will be loss, like any HDD out there, but that is nearly a 50% loss.

Considering DVR functions, I'm just saying the stock HDD is not feasible at all.

If you're finished with the preloaded songs (Cold, Tsar, Unwritten Law, etc.), the Titanic featurette, the Warren Miller video, the Adidas commercial, the "Inside the Xbox 360" video, etc., ditch 'em. The demos can add up to a lot of space, but if there's anything you're not playing, toss those out too.

When I bought the HDD, and noticed all that stuff on there, I thought I had gotten one that someone had returned and forgot to delete all their crap. I've deleted most of that stuff. I'm at 13 gb, so I guess that's it.

Anybody have any trouble finding this? All I saw under the King Kong menu were the two trailers.

The demo was removed from the marketplace yesterday.

Were people having a problem with the demo?

Chris

so I'm playing Full Auto and am in the middle of a race and the system just locked up. I had to force a shutdown from the power button on the box itself since the remote was useless. I hope it was a fluke. :nervous shaking: