It was a question I asked back in the preview. I remember ESPN360 doing commercials in the past, like during March Madness and maybe even the World Cup. Since they've moved to ESPN3, I haven't seen any.

I tried the streaming today and all i get is standard definition on ESPN. How you stream in HD?

I didn't have to do anything. Are you sure everything is in SD or just the one event?

Some events probably arent in HD

i watched the auburn game today on espn3 through my xbox
definitly wasnt HD and there was alot of buffering
but for the most part, it was watchable.. definitly better than paying PPV rates
my xbox is hardwired and my connection is typically around 12mb down.. never had any issues playing HD through netflix, no buffering, minimal adjusting down to lower quality... almost always full bars

I forgot to set the DVR to record the Michigan-Illinois game so ESPN3 on the 360 really saved my butt as I was able to start the full-length replay within minutes of the game ending and it looked very close to true HD. Not a game I would've wanted to miss out on. I was skeptical that I would ever actually use the thing and here I was turning to it within days of the upgrade.

I have a 1.5 mb connection and it definitely looked sd. Is that how all the games are gonna look due to my shitty connection speed?

The Auburn game was blocked here until after it was over. Since it was PPV, the picture was standard but was very watchable. It was nice to go thru the highlights myself (once the Arkansas/SC game got out of hand) since I wouldn't have normally been able to watch any of that game since I wouldn't spring for PPV for a Chattanooga game.

The Arkansas/SC game was in HD. The picture seemed just a little darker than the HD broadcasts on the main networks but that could just be ESPN. I canceled my HD cable awhile back so I haven't had ESPNHD in a year. No having HD anymore for sports (other than the local affiliates) really makes me love having this. I wouldn't have been able to watch the Arkansas/SC game in HD otherwise. to this new channel!

Only thing that sucks is if your internet connection goes down or drops out. Then you are fucked.

I like that new controller but the left thumbstick squeaks when I use it. Any thoughts on how to fix that? Will it just go away eventually?

Does anybody know how to change the audio stream on Zune from stereo to 5.1? I downloaded the HD version of The Walking Dead and when it plays my receiver switches to stereo. It's really annoying and I wonder if it's similar to the PS3 where I have to manually switch to the 5.1 audio with the game controller. When I play games, they always come through in 5.1, but not this.

So, does anybody know of any games that have something similar to Bionic Commando's challenge system?

Okay, I know nobody played it so I'll explain. Basically you're given a task.. such as say, throwing an enemy into the air and killing them in midair. When you complete it, you'll be given an upgrade (extra helath or weapon upgrades), an expanded version of the challenge (do it fifteen times), and/or a different but related challenge.

It's an addicting little system and I'd probably give another game that does something similar a shot.

Also, I just want to say if they had not wasted time, money and resources making a fucking shit bullet-point only multi-player component that was probably dead and forgotten a month after its release, Bionic Commando could have been a great game. Instead, it's a game that has a few real shitty design choices that happens to rock really hard when the parts of the game that work are working. Just a LITTLE polish. That's all this game needed. And that went wasted into a component that nobody but the marketing department wanted.

Red Dead Redemption has something like this. Everything from picking flowers, to shooting hats off people's heads, to killing a grizzly bear with a knife.

Rad. I was interested in this anyway but am waiting for the $20 or GOTY version.

Did anyone do the Reese's Halloween promotion that was on the Dashboard? I just received a First Prize email. I was very excited until I read what I won:

That's First Prize???? How generous.

. That's awesome.

So I bought a 250 GB Xbox Kinect bundle to upgrade my launch 360. I have the new Xbox in the living room, and plan on putting the old Xbox in my bedroom. I was wondering if it was possible to store my gamertag USB flash drive so that I wouldn't have to constantly recover my gamertag from the internet.

Yes, that's the way I, and several more here, have it. Pretty simple and the best solution.

Second Prize is $100,000.

Because REESE’S® Peanut Butter Cups are just that good!

I guess it's too much to ask of Microsoft to come up with a networking solution for gamertags, xbla games and DLC. Store it all on one system but still be able to play any of it on another console in the same house.

Thanks. I knew that people had stored their gamertags on the older MUs, but since the new Xbox doesn't have that, I wasn't sure if a standard USB drive would work.

Just my luck. I go to play a little rock band before bed. My system doesn't recognize that the disc is in the system. So, I open and close the drive. It shows a brief reading disc message then goes to an open tray message like no disc is in it.

So. I boxed it all up and grabbed my receipt and best buy service plan. I will go to the store tomorrow and get my money back. The nice thing is I paid $399 for the 120gb elite in march 09. Now the new slim 250 gb is $299. So $100 cheaper which will pay for a new service plan and maybe a game. Good thing the new dashboard is live. When I was in beta for it, it was tied to my console id.

What a hassle. Hopefully they won't give me any issues at the store. And I have to figure out how to transfer all my content from my 120 gb drive to the internal 250gb drive. I don't want to have to download it all again then go through the license transfer hassle.

Sigh. This will be my 4th, I believe, system.

Start getting all your saves off of it now. Sounds like you won't be able to have both hard drives at once to do a full transfer. Downloading from history isn't that big of a deal. Just have the xbox on and on the "Active Downloads" page, and just click through history adding everything.

IIRC, the download queue maxes out at around 20-30 items and you're likely to hit that limit as something big is the current download. Keeping it on the "Active Downloads" page means it will pick up the new items you added via xbox.com automatically as it refreshes after each download.

I do have a transfer cable kit from a previous system when I had a 20 gig pro 360 and it died and I went to a 120 gig Elite model.
From what I read on line, the transfer cable will work from the 120 gig drive to the new 250 gig drive. So that makes me happy.

I really wasn't looking forward to having to redownload everything.

Then, once everything is transferred to the new 250 gig drive, I have to go through making it my default console for downloads and do the license transfer thing.