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Mine sucks.

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https://xbox.promo.eprize.com/tokenb...id=netflixgold

enter code 5M9G1A

and your email

it's down right now because people have been raping it for codes.

in fact, if you look in the for sale section, someone got a bunch for free and sold them off.

thanks to cag.

edit to add: this is for ONE (per email address, whoops) free month of gold membership on your 360.

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Not bad. Have tested before and passed 26 on download. 4+ upload is nice.

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Can you still download trailers on Live? I added Zune and for whatever reason, I can't figure out how to download any trailers now. The only option to view any movie related content is through Zune and it only lets you preview stuff. I see no download option.

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Not sure, I gave up on trailers and shit after the stupid Zune bullshit was added.

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I was watching some a few weeks ago on ZUNE. I just went to the trailers area and clicked on the trailer I wanted to see. There were some pretty good ones up there.

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:up: That Zune crap makes the entire video Marketplace take twice as long. I hate it as well.

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You can WATCH trailers...but I don't think you can download them anymore.

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Buy.com's eBay outlet has 12-month cards for $29.99. Better go before they sell out: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=350326548706

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I can't access ebay from work and it was quite the chore to buy this through my iPhone (you can't do instant purchases on the app and can't on the mobile website either).

Finally got it though. :)

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Checked my account, after the Halo 2 bonus months, I'm signed up through May 2012. :lol:

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So all you need is 7 more months and your set ;)

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Anyone know if the XBOX 360 DVD remote will control movie functions watching an "instant movie" from Netflix?

So I would be able to watch the Netflix movie and control the functions with the remote rather than the game controller.

My ideal scenario would be to use my MX-500 Master remote, but I cannot find a command that makes it work, so my second thought would be to buy the 360 remote used and learn the functions into the MX-500.

Thanks for any help.

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You can absolutely use either the 360 Media remote or a Harmony remote to watch Netflix. I'm sure any universal remote that has a 360 function can do that.

Your plan to teach the remote would work, but you should really think about picking up a Harmony remote instead. There's a pretty good one at Costco for about $70 that will CHANGE YOUR LIFE!

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The XBOX uses infared commands so you should be able to program any remote to control it. I've programmed an Mx-450 to control an xbox so I don't see why the 500 wouldn't.

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do you remember how, what code, device button used, etc? i used the MX-500 "find a code" and cycled through codes labeled for DVD, AUX, and SAT and none of them operated the 360.

any help would be appreciated.

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I actually checked your remote's manual and there's no 360 code.

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thanks Decker and JBR. got the remote from Target. programmed all functions into MX, made sure all worked well and they do. will return tomorrow. nice and easy.

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Glad everything worked out. I used AUX and found a code for microsoft and it worked in at least powering on the xbox 360. It didn't specifically say xbox 360 though and I didn't test all the functions.

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i here ya. i just did the learn of all. took a bit for some buttons to work, like the main XBOX button, the on/off power, A,B,Y,X. they perhaps work with a discrete code where it needs a double. but it all eventually learned just fine and just have to point MX remote to XBOX, but the MS remote was the same way.

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Some info and video of the Microsoft "Game Room"

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/m...n-our-hands-o/

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16 Xboxes Help Pull Off Amazing Theater Stunt: http://www.electronichouse.com/artic...theater_stunt/

Photos: http://www.electronichouse.com/slide...ory/8172/1166/

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I'm still wondering about the dual-license crap. If it's just to play the games on the PC, forget it. I can play those games for free if I'm so inclined. If however you can then play those same games on a Windows 7 Series phone, well now you're talking...

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I have an extra 20gb 360 since I got an Elite a couple months ago, was going to keep it around, but might sell it now - it's still under the 3-year RROD warranty until August, and has been replaced once because of the RROD - is it considered a refurb or used unit (just looking at eBay)? And what needs to be done once it is sold, as far as making sure all my info is off of it (just a format of the HD? I forget if any personal info is saved internally...) and transferring the serial # to the buyer?

Where would you recommend trying to get rid of it, other than eBay?

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Xbox 360 'Valhalla' motherboard leaked on Chinese forum?



Hey if they are going to redo the whole form factor of the 360 now is a good time to add Blu-Ray.

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Free One Month of Live!

So the promo is back after people abused it. You can now only get one code per ip address (earlier people were entering fake emails and racking up 3 years of xbox live.) So theoretically you could get an extra by using a different ip and a different email. But where are the morals in that?

https://xbox.promo.eprize.com/tokenb...id=netflixgold

The new code is W2N4F9.

Enjoy!

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:up: thanks!

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cool thanks!

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If you think that's great, text NBA to 74139.

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1 month of live > a chance to win 400points.

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'chance' to win 400? :lol:

Thanks for the month of Live.

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Thanks!

Now I'm good though 7/2012

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exactly. I wish he had said what it was before I wasted a two texts on it (1in/1out)

Edit to comment on what's below this post:
Well, i'll wait until tuesday then.

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Well, you can enter everyday. There's a giveaway every Tuesday. Entering once enters you for every giveaway.

In three weeks time I've won 800 points.

Better than nothing!

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Well that changes things. Those odds aren't bad. Gave it a shot. Thanks TL.

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Thanks :up:

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Thanks! Worked great.

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Said supplies are DEPLETED already.

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Thanks for sharing this, but why did you not tell us 3 weeks ago? ;)

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Xbox 360 gaining USB storage support in 2010 update

Documentation obtained by Joystiq – and subsequently confirmed with two separate sources – reveals that "USB Mass Storage Device Support on Xbox 360" will soon be a reality. The document, authored by a senior software development engineer at Microsoft, states that due to "increased market penetration of high-capacity, high throughput USB mass storage devices, a 2010 Xbox 360 system update" will allow consumers to save and load game data from USB devices. The update is purportedly coming in Spring 2010.

Once the update occurs, Xbox 360 owners will be able to download Xbox Live Arcade games, Xbox Live Indie games, Games on Demand, DLC and Title Updates to the storage device. "USB storage devices may, however, have far greater memory capacity than MUs (at the date of writing, the largest MU is 512 MB), and may therefore support previously infeasible operations-such as installation of a full disc-based title." That's right, you can also store disc-based games to the USB device; however, it will require the disc to be in the tray for authentication, identical to the current functionality.

According to the document, the USB mass storage device must be at least 1GB and the system will do a compatibility check. "The system partition occupies 512 MB of space, and by default the consumer partition occupies the remainder of the device capacity, or 16 GB, whichever is smaller." Upon inserting a blank USB storage device, "consumers are offered two choices: 'Configure now' or 'Customize'." The "Configure now" option will use "the entire device capacity, up to the maximum of 512 MB plus 16 GB" meaning, regardless of the overall size of the device you're using, the Xbox will only enable 16 GB of usable, non-system storage. The "Customize" option will allow you to "preserve some pre-existing, non-console data on the device" such as music.

It should be clear by now that Microsoft is simply pulling out of the Memory Unit business and not the highly lucrative Xbox hard drive business. With an artificial cap of 16 GB – still shy of the 20 GB hard drive that shipped with the original 2005 Xbox Pro and a fraction the size of the currently shipping 120 GB hard drive – USB storage support simply removes the onerous requirement for a Memory Unit on Xbox 360 Arcade units, and brings the Xbox 360 platform a feature that's been present on the PlayStation 3 since that console's 2006 launch.

If you're intent on circumventing Microsoft's cutthroat hard drive pricing the Xbox 360, you can use two USB storage devices for a maximum of 32 GB of usable storage; however, the console "has a fixed limit of two external USB mass storage devices" regardless of whether they're "formatted for the Xbox 360 or not." If you fill all three USB ports on the console, only the first two to be connected will be recognized.

With talk of a new (slim?) form factor for the Xbox 360 picking up, and plans to abandon (or at least obviate) Memory Units underway, we're guessing those Memory Unit slots could be cut entirely from future iterations of the console.

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