Xbox 360 Hitting Shelves November 4th?

Sunday, Jul. 17 2005 | Author: Dave

Finally the Xbox 360 will be coming out for the general public. In under 112 days, it will be released.

The first Xbox 360’s will be on retailers shelves by November 4th, or atleast so says Xbox365.com. I don’t know how they obtained that information, so I also do not know how reliable it is, but if nothing else, it has the community excited.

I thought they would go for a closer to Christmas release, but making sure they are first to the market was probably of the greatest importance to Microsoft. So for all of you wanting the Xbox 360, start saving.

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One Response for "Xbox 360 Hitting Shelves November 4th?"

walter_3_d

August 4th, 2005 at 5:16 pm
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I just setup a Pluto Home system (smarthome + media server, plutohome.com, free open source). Itâs really cool. It has a streaming movie server, music server, pvr. Plus it does home automation and controls a/v equipment too. Thereâs only 1 problemâŠ

You designate 1 PC to be the server; they call it the core. It exposes a network boot image for any other PC in the house, so your PC becomes dual purposeânormal pc, or net boot and itâs a set top box. You control it with Bluetooth mobile phones or web pads. And all the set top boxes in the house work together. Your media even follows you as you move from room to room if you keep the phone on. The problem is I donât have enough media pcâs for all the rooms in my house, and buying a full PC for each room is too expensive. Plus thereâs no video cards for the PC that have component video outputâwhich is the only way I can get HDTV into my tv.

The X-Box seems perfect as a media director. Itâs a PC inside, right? So why couldnât it boot like normal as an Xbox, or net boot as a pluto media director? Then it would be part of a whole house solution that did everything. I could even use the Xbox to turn on my sprinklers if I wanted, and do all sorts of stuff with it. Plus, since Pluto gives it a network boot image, space is no longer an issueâall the software could be stored on the main server. And the XBox has component video and itâs quiet and cheap.

Does anybody have an idea if it would be possible to use the XBox as a media director like that, doing a network boot? Then I could just buy a few of the XBoxâs rather than having to buy regular PCâs.