High-Definition Xbox 360 Game Trailers

[Jeremy Charette]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=ABDE1E02-B529-469E-AE6A-7417FCDE9E12&displaylang=en' target='_blank'>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=ABDE1E02-B529-469E-AE6A-7417FCDE9E12&displaylang=en</a><br /><br /></div><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/logoxbox360.jpg" /><br /><br /><i>"What’s even better than reading about the latest E3 news and games? Seeing it! Here’s your one-stop destination for video coverage of the biggest gaming event of the year—straight from E3 to you."</i><br /><br />Microsoft has posted high definition (720p) Xbox 360 game trailers at its' website. Being that every Xbox 360 game will be in HD, watching low-resolution trailers can't possibly do them justice! The visuals in these trailers are stunning, approaching true cinematic quality. The most astonishing part? Many of these videos are from Alpha development kits, which only run at 25-35% of the speed of the final Xbox 360 hardware! The next generation of games is shaping up to be everything players have waited for and more.

[OSUKid7]

Microsoft HD videos always worth the download time. These are no different. I can't wait to get my hands on an Xbox 360 now, for both the games and the Media Center Extender capabilities. :D

[Jeremy Charette]

I just wish I had the horsepower to view them! With a 2.0 Ghz Celeron and shared video memory, my laptop struggles to keep up with WMVHD content. I end up having to go frame by frame or burning them to a DVD to view on my HDTV.

The games on the Xbox 360 will be incredible for sure, but I'm actually more interested in its' multimedia capabilities. This is a screen cap of the Media Blade in the Xbox 360 Dashboard:

http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/media/users/1990/mediablade.jpg

I'm dying to find out how the 360 interfaces with other PCs on your home network, how it stores digital media on its' own hard drive, and how well it performs as a Media Center Extender.

[OSUKid7]

I just wish I had the horsepower to view them! With a 2.0 Ghz Celeron and shared video memory, my laptop struggles to keep up with WMVHD content. I end up having to go frame by frame or burning them to a DVD to view on my HDTV.
Yeah, I finally have a computer that can run HD WMV files perfectly - my HP Pavilion zd8000, with a P4 3.4 GHz w/HT, ATi Mobility Radeon X600, and 1GB of RAM. I know some people talked about the super-high system requirements in the last HD WMV thread. As much as people like to blame Microsoft for this, it really seems like the weakest point of HD video is the hardware.

[Jeremy Charette]

Which is precisely why I'm saving up for a new MCE desktop machine. :D

[Felix Torres]

I'm dying to find out how the 360 interfaces with other PCs on your home network, how it stores digital media on its' own hard drive, and how well it performs as a Media Center Extender.

1- The 360 will support both Windows Media Connect and the new "Emerald" Media Center Extender tech on MCE PCs.
2- The current XBOX stores ripped audio in wma format; the 360 will likely do the same, except it will automatically tag the ripped tracks if its online.
3- Much better than the current XBOX. :-)