Comment

Yes. I like the look of high end audio/video equipment. The shape is built to go in a A/V cabinet and fit right in with my DirectTv receiver, and other equipment. Glad it isnt anything like the PS3 with a shape not built to be stacked.

about 11 hours ago on Do you like the Xbox One design?

Comment

so how wide is the Xbox One. Some pictures make it look huge, but seeing it opened it looks like it is about 2.5 DVDs wide.

Thoughts?

1 day ago on Xbox One Motherboard Pic - Anything revealing tech experts? 2 replies

Comment

Amazes me how many of these posts sound like Blackberry, Windows Mobile and other phone owners when the very 1st iPhone was released.

1 day ago on Steve Jobs Dream Device has Arrived (Xbox One)

Comment

Steve Jobs was smarter than that. His dream device would not be a controlling device or a replacement device it would be both.

That is the Xbox One.

The Xbox One controls your Cable box and it also replaces it with streaming services and for physical content it provides a Blu-Ray drive. What makes it special is what Apple has been put on a pedestal for. The user interaction providing near instant seamless interaction between the physical, broadcast, and streaming content.

As for DVR capabilities as people said before HDMI makes it so that the content cannot be recorded by an external device, and DVR capabilities becoming less and less important as more content moves to streaming services. We really don’t use our DVR much anymore with ondemand and streaming services like Hulu.

2 days ago on Steve Jobs Dream Device has Arrived (Xbox One)

Comment

Definitely going Xbox One

1. Hardware between the 2 will be the closest 2 competitors will have ever been.
2. The media/TV capabilities is exactly what my family wants. My wife in particular. She hates switching between Cable Box, BluRay and 360 depending on what she wants to watch. She finds it overly complex (Even with a good Harmony Remote). 360 is great with all the apps, but switching between them is painful.
3. Kinect control of the whole entertainment system. Only thing I dont see it doing is adjusting volume on the stereo receiver. If it can do that somehow then we are close to perfection.
4. Augmented TV particularly Sports and NFL Fantasy Football.

3 days ago on XBox One VS PS4 3 replies

Comment

If you can turn more of the resale market to revenue for the Game Developers/Publishers then this is more revenue not less. Someone purchases a $60 game and finishes it a week then sells to Gamestop for $30 and sells for $40. How much does publisher get after retailer cut, Microsoft cut, production costs of the physical disk and shipment of physical disk? So sell the game for $40 or $50 and charge $10 to re-activate and disk changes hands once or twice leads to more actual revenue.

3 days ago on Xbox One confusion: Microsoft leaves used games and 'always-online' requirement unclear 1 reply

Comment

If I understand this right this is an improvement. Currently we still have a Family Plan until the expiration in November for 4 people. We also have an additional Gold for the 5th member of the family. They can be used on any 360.

From this it sounds like we will have 1 Xbox Gold Subscription per device and have any number of Gamertags as part of the subscription. Wonder of that means if we have multiple Xbox Ones in the house we will need additional Xbox Gold Subscriptions. Hmm can Gamertags be associated with multiple Gold Subscriptions.

3 days ago on Xbox One lets households share one Xbox Live Gold subscription across multiple accounts 1 recommend

Comment

How so? We dont have a problem and we have 6 360s in our house.

3 days ago on Xbox One lets households share one Xbox Live Gold subscription across multiple accounts 1 recommend

Comment

THIS and also this is why no pricing has been announced in anyway yet.

3 days ago on Xbox One confusion: Microsoft leaves used games and 'always-online' requirement unclear 1 reply

Comment

I truly believe that this is something that the Game Development houses want. It isnt driven by the hardware maker it is driven by the software makers. They want people to pay them for the software, sure Microsoft would like the additional license $ they get for a game sale, but not nearly as much as the Game Development houses. So giving the Game Development houses a way to make some cash off used game sales is where we are headed. Otherwise the cost of development and the cheap mobile games will kill them.

Now I do believe that Microsoft and Game Developers should come out and state that is the case and for games that support this licensing model they will charge less for a new game purchase like $40 or $50 US, but purchasing the “Used” game from a friend will cost $10-$20. A game that does not use this licensing model will be $60-$70.

3 days ago on Xbox One confusion: Microsoft leaves used games and 'always-online' requirement unclear 2 replies 1 recommend

Comment

Yawn

5 days ago on Sony teases PlayStation 4 hardware ahead of Xbox event, says you'll 'see it first at E3'

Comment

How about we reverse this.

I don’t get why you would choose the PS4 over the next Xbox when the PS4 offers nothing more than what the next Xbox offers.

8 days ago on Microsoft planning Xbox dashboard UI and tile changes in preparation for next-gen console 5 recommends

Comment

Is it just me or does a variant on the 920 really merit a press event? Just seems like there has to be something more, particularly right after they release another variant (928) without an event. If it is really a more advanced device it needs a different numbering scheme. Perhaps 930 or 950.

12 days ago on Nokia Lumia 925 pictured in leaked images

Comment

Why not just continue to use the iPhone for the games and use the Windows Phone for everything else and as the games come you will use the iPhone less and less. Thats what we did with my wifes old HTC Radar, gave it to my 11 year old for games and dont have any cellular service on it.

15 days ago on Nokia Lumia 928 for Verizon announced, available May 16th for $99.99 1 reply 8 recommends

Comment

How so. MSDN licenses are not Windows 8 licenses. The 100M number is reported is for specifically Windows 8 licenses. So you add on top of the 100M the number of developers with MSDN licenses. Then you figure that they tend to have Windows 8 on more than 1 machine. Why not including site license type numbers would indicate less users actually using Windows 8 is beyond me.

15 days ago on Windows 8: forget 100m licences 'sold', here's how many PCs are running it 2 replies 1 recommend

Comment

What about people with MSDN licenses and the like. These arent purchases of Windows 8, but allow you to install on multiple machines. So one they arent paid and 2 can be installed on multiple machines. All those PCs have Windows 8 running on them.

15 days ago on Windows 8: forget 100m licences 'sold', here's how many PCs are running it 1 reply

Comment

Still waiting for the new Samsung Series 7 Chronos…Or whatever it is called now.

16 days ago on Closest Competitor to the Thinkpad Helix 1 reply

Comment

We know that OEMs and retailers just love to order (and pay for) stuff they arent selling anytime soon.

17 days ago on Total Windows Device Sales in Decline 1 reply 1 recommend

Comment

From that..

Mini-tablets, even more than full-sized tablets, are obviously purchased as secondary or companion devices. But this means that consumers can stretch out their next PC purchase longer than ever before. And it also means that many will not buy a PC—or at least a traditional PC—the next time around too. Many will simply forego PC purchases in the future because they’ll discover that some combination of smart phone and tablet/mini-tablet is enough.

17 days ago on Total Windows Device Sales in Decline 1 reply

Comment

Hardware sales dont tell us the true picture of Windows 8. The fact of the matter is you dont need to purchase a new PC to get an improvement. Windows 7 and even more so make a Windows Vista era machine a better, faster machine. Much of the reason for declining sales are declining need for a faster machine. Less and less software requires more powerful machines. So people are sticking with hardware longer and some are choosing to upgrade to Windows 8. Many of those people with Vista (even some late XP era machines) went to Windows 7 for performance improvements as well.

17 days ago on Total Windows Device Sales in Decline 1 reply 3 recommends

Comment

“The Xbox 360 never quite made good on its live TV potential, but it seems that Redmond is determined to get it right this time.”

What is this comment supposed to be. Two major things have held the 360 back and both are 2005 hardware limitations. The two major things are the speed in which you can switch back and forth between media apps, and the ability to act as a set-top box. One was simply because processing power and memory was to cost prohibitive in 2005 and the other is because the feature wasnt on the worlds radar at the time. It isnt get it right this time, it is that now is the time that makes these features prime time and unless MSFT screws it up they have the potential to dominate with the headstart they already have.

19 days ago on Leaked Microsoft 'memo' says next-gen Xbox won't require constant internet connection 1 recommend

Comment

Still looks like the FitBit One is the way to go. I have a FitBit one and love it. Find the sleep tracking to be implemented very easily. Also love the alarm functionality which no one seems to mention much. It has replaced my alarm in the morning, and I also use it to send me an hourly alarm starting at 9:00AM to get up and move (typically walk down to 1st floor of building then back up to 5th floor). We use MyFitnessPal for food and exercise tracking and that gets sent back to FitBit to keep both in sync. I had previously bought my wife a Nike FuelBand it was always very temperamental and requires to many firmware updates and the API isnt open so very little interesting apps/sites that integrate with it. Just wish I had a FitBit One that I could where on my wrist that was fully waterproof.

19 days ago on Fitbit Flex review

Comment

Well new information puts Windows Phone at 5.6% of the US market. Was 3.2% of the market in January so nearly doubling in 4 months is pretty good.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/1399161-growth-for-windows-phone-in-the-u-s-accelerates?source=msn

22 days ago on Windows Phones: are they a joke? 1 reply

Comment

I think that a new Xbox 360 Mini would be a good addition. Yet I think it should support playing existing 360 games, not just Arcade. How much storage would be needed to store 2 full games in flash?

Increase flash from 4GB to 16GB. Probably costs as much now for 4GB as 16GB.
Remove space for HDD. What does this save? $25.
Remove DVD drive. All games are downloaded. What does this save? $10.
Shrink as much as possible. This saves on production, shipping and storage.

Then in a year or 2 add the Xbox 720 Mini

26 days ago on Xbox Mini 2 replies

Comment

Dont need the Main Xbox for this sort of thing. Since the conten will come from the internet anyway. Dont think any plan to store content on the Main Xbox anyway.

29 days ago on XBox 720 disappointment.

Comment

Umm

Always On (power and internet) for new entertainment capabilities that need to constantly update content like program listings.
Always On (power) so that can use Kinect Voice Control can be used to turn Xbox fully on.

Not to mention why the fear of DRM anyway. Maybe I am weird and dont ever pirate games. So DRM doesnt scare me. Yet I do see a problem if DRM is always checking with internet outages. Yet even without “Always On” DRM still can work. Zune and Xbox Music pass have DRM and the check isnt constant.

29 days ago on XBox 720 disappointment.