Xbox 360 Streaming Video

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A big thanks goes out to Wulfegang for finding this gem.

Ourcolony has released a streaming video of Microsoft's Xbox 360. Unlike last nights MTV special, this video is worth sitting through. ;)

Video: Xbox 360 Streaming Video

Download: Xbox 360 Streaming Video

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(2 replies) #1 orange_boy on 13 May 2005 - 17:32

Dunno where you get your links from but takes me to here
http://www.realarcade.com/realarcade?tps=over-uk_&src=over-uk_download

#1.1 malebolgia on 13 May 2005 - 18:24

Not on my end.

#1.2 Robbobloke on 14 May 2005 - 20:02

don't click on the actual word download.. its an advert..

(5 replies) #2 Novaoblivion on 13 May 2005 - 17:38

Wow that was about a billion times better then the MTV thing last night. The MTV thing sucked ass.

#2.1 Deelow on 13 May 2005 - 17:51

Ditto.

#2.2 malebolgia on 13 May 2005 - 18:24

I second that.

#2.3 warwagon on 13 May 2005 - 18:27

I 3rd that

*edit*

just watched and ..OMG that OWNED..... the MTV one... the MTV one sucked so much ass

"lets see because its MTV first we have to waste 7 mins worth of air time just to watch some f'ing band preform (if I wanted to watch a band preform I would have watched this crappy station any other time. but I just wanna see the new xbo

then it has to waste even more time and show us how the pimp my ride guys pimped xbox's (for christ sake) what does this have to do with xbox 360. Then to finish it off we have to watch some half wits playing a game against each other... I would rather see new game footage."

Last edited by 4927 on 13 May 2005 - 18:42

#2.4 mr_skrilla on 13 May 2005 - 21:28

it is MTV (Music Television)... What do you expect man?

#2.5 kronik on 14 May 2005 - 02:11

lol I havent seen it but judging by these comments I dont wanna see it no more
its true MTV does suck ass

#3 atpcz on 13 May 2005 - 17:55

that was VERY good

#4 stezo2k on 13 May 2005 - 18:21

wow, great video, i'm buying one as soon as it comes out, it looks amazing

(3 replies) #5 KeR on 13 May 2005 - 18:27

I am still confused, do they all come with a HD or do you have to pay extra?

#5.1 threedaysdwn on 13 May 2005 - 18:42

Right now there is only one model that has been "announced" - the 20GB model.

I would not be surprised if they later add Xbox 360 packages that include larger hard drives (as well as seperate upgrade drives).

I doubt you'll see one without an HD though. At least initially. I for one hope they always include at least some HD. Developers need to know that everyone who has a 360 has a hard drive.

#5.2 jphillips59 on 13 May 2005 - 18:58

I heard there will be one without a HD....so who knows...

#5.3 Smigit on 14 May 2005 - 05:09

I very much doubt they will do both a HD and non HD version. I know it was announced or speculated earlier on, but from a practical point of view it doesnt make much sense to me. Firsly it would probably cost them more to maintain two machines than its worth, secondly alot of people would get very confused when buying games and finding out this or that or the game in full wont work due to them having no HD.

I also heard the HD is detachable...I suppose that would be doable but then its really just a memory card based on a HD instead of flash based memory.

My bet is there will be a HD, even if its not partiucully big (20gig sounds fair...60 - 100 would be great but)

#6 King Mustard on 13 May 2005 - 18:36

What a nerdy video! :|

(2 replies) #7 HumanSmoke on 13 May 2005 - 18:45

That was a really good video. I am still confused by the processors. One guy on the video said "3 processors" then another one said "3 asymmetric cores". I thought that it was supposed to be 3 dual core processors (IBM chips similar to G5) for a total of 6 cores.

#7.1 Roger on 13 May 2005 - 19:39

It's one processor with 3 cores. Each core has two hardware threads for a total of 6 threads.

#7.2 kronik on 14 May 2005 - 02:14

wouldnt such a beast anhialate todays best 64-bit processor?

(2 replies) #8 noping on 13 May 2005 - 19:10

It is only ONE processor with three cores.. Each of the three cores have to hardware threats.

As we have seen with Intel HT, those additional Hardware threads are Just for marketing, you will see no performance gains in games.

So it leaves it with 3 cores,, not 6!!

#8.1 rIaHc3 on 13 May 2005 - 19:45

um Intel's HT technology does improve encoding video/audio and applications that are designed for Intel HT processors do take advantage of it. Dont make false statements without backing them up.

#8.2 Betaz on 14 May 2005 - 16:40

Yes, well also you don't understand multi-processor computing. Unless your system and the program you are using is designed to run two seperate tasks, then it basically just becomes a load balance and that won't show as much difference. However, in the Xbox 360 each core has a different part of the system to power, and all coding will be written to utilize 2 threads on each core. When coupled with the proper program design, having a cpu, especially as powerful as these are, that has two hardware threads running simultaneously, there is a huge difference. If you have an extremely powerful processor and it can only run 1 thread, then no matter how mundane a task it is performing, it can only perform that one task, finish it, and then move on to the next, therefore wasting all the rest of the power of the CPU. Toss another thread in there and you can utilize the rest of that CPU's power while it finishes the first task.

In short, it makes a huge difference and the performance gain when properly utilized is very large.

#9 idoia on 13 May 2005 - 19:15

did I just watched a bunch of nerds?

mei mei bong bung funny name

(1 reply) #10 perochan on 13 May 2005 - 19:32

hmm, they could show more stuff from the games.

#10.1 malebolgia on 13 May 2005 - 19:35

That's what E3 is for.

#11 rIaHc3 on 13 May 2005 - 19:42

WOW......Just WOW

(4 replies) #12 DjmUK on 13 May 2005 - 20:52

I HATE Windows Streaming (wmv) files. It's never synced, ever 30 seconds I have to go back a frame to resync...and yes WMP 10 (latest version) fast broadband.

Why don't they give up and use QuickTime - zero problems with that codec.

Anyways, this Xbox 360 does look nice - but I'm sticking to PC's.

#12.1 chicken-royal on 13 May 2005 - 21:21

why don't you download the video? wmv isnt just to stream.

#12.2 Laptop™ on 13 May 2005 - 22:04

Quicktime is GAY!

#12.3 DjmUK on 13 May 2005 - 22:17

chicken-royal: Because the Download link didn't work for me - it just loads up a site saying High/Low and neither of them does anything on that site.

Laptop: As you're a noob, please keep your fact-less homosexual comments to yourself...remember, those who keep using that word are latent homosexuals themselves

EDIT
chick-royal, it's downloading now - damned site didn't even tell me...just started auto-downloading. 31MB in total.

#12.4 chicken-royal on 14 May 2005 - 22:35

okay

no worries. atleast it's sorted now.

#13 fo20 on 13 May 2005 - 21:11

so we can mod it all we want i guess. they say, you do what you want with it, you give it the life. so.... mod away ppL!!!

#14 oddcrap on 13 May 2005 - 21:20

Great, download now.. thanks!

(2 replies) #15 Vannos on 13 May 2005 - 22:06

Wow, liquid cooled, and two exaust ports. This might be a bit loud. I didnt' notice what size the two fans are, maybe 80mm.
Im gunna grab my one of these.

#15.1 Pc_Madness on 14 May 2005 - 10:32

I was wondering if I was the only won who spotted that. Liquid Cooling... I dunno if thats the greatest idea for a games console. :s

#15.2 Betaz on 14 May 2005 - 16:32

Unless you want your next gen game console to be the size of your TV, it's genius. If you have every built a PC, you know how much heat they give off. Now look at how much more powerful this console will be than your PC and you will understand it almost being a necessity.

#16 stevonw on 13 May 2005 - 23:01

Who needs streaimg when you can d/load this vid Via BT

#17 stevonw on 13 May 2005 - 23:01

Who needs streaming when you can d/load this vid Via BT

#18 tm™ on 14 May 2005 - 00:11

Although I'm a loyal Sony fan, I'm quite impressed now.

#19 Riangelo-D on 14 May 2005 - 00:17

Same here

#20 nic on 14 May 2005 - 01:14

what a stupid video. it didn't show off any games in it! and nauseas camera angles threw out. Not worth watching! Look at some pictures of it, thats basically all you get out of this video. ooohhhh ahhh....

#21 Zelpus on 14 May 2005 - 01:55

Whats all the hype about? Looks like a midgrade media center pc to me with a stupid gui...

#22 Klownicle on 14 May 2005 - 02:51

I got out of consoles for pc. But this is lookin tasty...

#23 eminem213486 on 14 May 2005 - 03:11

the fact its a media center extender alone makes me buy this beast, i hate the prices of the standalone extenders.. ridiculous

im getting this for hte fact itll let me get rid of my media cente pc in my room and that itll be graphically amazing. OUR COLONY WILLRETURN, team YAY, TEAMXBOX

#24 a_witko on 14 May 2005 - 03:59

i think that it is the ugliest thing in the world. no amount of 'skinning' can cover up how ugly that thing is.

It's just like you can't make an ugly chick good looking with a tonne of make-up.

The only reason I won't buy one is because it's friggin ugly.

#25 David24 on 14 May 2005 - 06:48

I don't care about what's on the outside, only what's in the inside.

#26 SecretAgentMan on 14 May 2005 - 07:55

What a beautiful looking console!!! Now we need to see more of the games.

#27 ProxXect on 14 May 2005 - 08:31

I hope they improve that ugly GUI.

#28 roy_eyal on 14 May 2005 - 09:18

Nothing new to show. Just PR...

#29 MvT Cracker on 14 May 2005 - 09:57

and the link dose not work anymore

#30 Spik3balloon on 14 May 2005 - 10:40

Links still working. Except you can't download it. Stream only.

Edit: Found a non stream version:
http://www.tok2.com/home/xbox360/TheColony_v1_750k%20(wmr).wmv

Last edited by 107320 on 14 May 2005 - 11:30

(1 reply) #31 Cardinal on 14 May 2005 - 11:07

That was vomit-worthy hehe. It was so plastic, so Microsoft. It's never a good idea to show the guys behind a project like this. That bald geek should be dragged out back and shot. 'Dragonlady'?

#31.1 Black on 14 May 2005 - 21:10

So you liked the MTV show better I take it?

#32 robpears on 14 May 2005 - 11:12

looks awesome

#33 deNuo on 14 May 2005 - 11:43

wow that looks awesome!! i for one will be gettin one as soon as they come out.. just looks amazing

#34 Dirtie on 14 May 2005 - 11:58

http://www.tok2.com/home/xbox360/TheColony...50k%20(wmr).wmv
Sorry bout this, just had to do it so I could right-click and download.

#35 arcadefx on 14 May 2005 - 13:22

Nice, this video is far better than the tossed together MTV one.

Cool, a removeable HD, nice, so does that mean it's upgradeable?

Potential Upgrade Path (IMO):
1) Go to the store and pick up a larger sized compatible HD.

2) Put in a Setup/Upgrade CD and my gamer tag settings, game saves, downloaded content are copied to my local WinXP/Media Center box via a local network.

3) Turn off unit

4) Attach the new HD to XBox 360, turn it on and put in an upgrade CD. My backup of gamer tag, game saves and downloaded content are restored onto the new HD.

Hmm..

#36 Inertia on 14 May 2005 - 15:10

wow now i know i want one

#37 neo_joel on 14 May 2005 - 15:29

wicked video

(1 reply) #38 RazorSA on 14 May 2005 - 16:17

http://msxb.vo.llnwd.net/o2/ourcolony/TheColony_v2_750k.zip

http://msxb.vo.llnwd.net/o2/ourcolony/TheColony_v2_300k.zip

#38.1 Nose Nuggets on 14 May 2005 - 17:14

thank you

#39 rusonjitsu on 14 May 2005 - 19:38

GAME are also detailing this

with a streaming mirror:

http://shop.game.net/xbox360/

#40 Kushan on 14 May 2005 - 23:51

I like the bit where he says "Make Xbox 360 yours, take it out of our hands" because you can bet they'll put something in the EULA about installing Linux lol

#41 ineedsleep on 15 May 2005 - 04:07

Alright sony, it's your turn now...

#42 MrStaticVoid on 15 May 2005 - 05:35

So who's reversed this video? I'm just curious about all of the backwards music as noted at the end of the video.

#43 Devlin on 17 May 2005 - 00:15

What was so freaking great about this Video, I mean yeah it's cool to learn about the machine but man it was more about the developers tooting their own horn's.

I love the Xbox and I can't wait for the 360 but this was such a waste of time to make. What the heck do we gotta do to get some freaking gameplay footage out of them, I mean the most I have gotten that looks worth it was on gamespot.com
you can see some footage of Ghost Recon 3 which looks "AWSOME" but still you are watching the same 30 sec footage over and over and over again.

you would think by now they would have known it's time to release some
GAMEPLAY FOOTAGE. None of this video sequence crap

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