Few 360 questions.


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Ok, so I just got my new 360 Elite. I am curious, if I can install a game to the HDD, then why is it telling me to insert the disc to play it, even after i've selected "Play from HD"?

Another question is, can I connect a flash drive and transfer pictures and music to the 360?

On another note, I didn't think Left 4 Dead would be that good. Honestly it scared the **** out of me a few times.

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You can connect a flash device and access the media that is on it (this also works with things like iPods), but you can't transfer it to the hard drive of the 360. Most people would use media sharing on their PC to access that kind of media from the 360.

The disc is necessary to confirm that you have a valid license for the game (that you own it), if you sell the disc, then you are transferring the license to the new owner. You can play games with no discs if you purchase and download them from the marketplace (including full retail Xbox and 360 games).

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Ok, so I just got my new 360 Elite. I am curious, if I can install a game to the HDD, then why is it telling me to insert the disc to play it, even after i've selected "Play from HD"?

You still need the disk, as it doesn't copy everything, (and so you can't rent and install games)

Another question is, can I connect a flash drive and transfer pictures and music to the 360?

Not sure, but you can charge an iPod with the USB Ports

edit: NINJA'D

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The disk is necessary as proof of purchase, the disk is not being used but is there to prove that you actually own the game (otherwise one friend would buy a game and just lend it out to everyone to install). You can connect flash drives but they cannot be transferred, if you burn music to a CD the music can be ripped from the CD onto the HDD though.

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The 360 should be on the same local network as the system with your music, photos, videos on it. Enable media sharing on the system with your media (in 7 this is the "HomeGroup" control panel, check the libraries you want to share, click the streaming box, then open the advanced properties and enable your 360 which should be populated into the list of devices on your local network).

Then you just open up the video, picture, or music player on the 360 and choose the computer as your source.

The process in Vista is similar, but I can't recall the exact locations to go to set it up. In XP you can use Media Player and in XP, Vista, and 7 Zune's software can also do the same thing (but it will share your Zune libraries rather than your system libraries, if there is some difference). Note that if you're using Zune, it will show the Zune library as a separate computer in your libraries selection screen, and it will have a little Zune icon next to it.

Note that streaming gives you some advantages. For instance, my local library (BPL!) has an online audio service. You can "borrow" media files (audiobooks, cds, etc) that use FairPlay encrypted WMA. If you stream the audio, you're able to play those encrypted files on your 360, but if you put them on a thumb drive, they wouldn't work (since they wouldn't be able to verify their license status).

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Just know that it only supports some video formats such as MPEG2 and WMV (No DivX/XviD)

IIRC you can set up a server on your computer to do on the fly transcoding to an Xbox360 supported format (I think VLC does it) if anyone has info on this I'd like to know too.

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Just know that it only supports some video formats such as MPEG2 and WMV (No DivX/XviD)
That is not true except in Media Center Extender mode, which is why no one uses it. Since Fall 2007 the 360 has supported MPEG4, DIVX, etc. It doesn't support the MKV container (although now that DIVX has added that to their base HD format, maybe you'll see it down the line).

http://blogs.msdn.com/xboxteam/archive/200...ayback-faq.aspx

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I was messing around on The Marketplace.

I found a few episodes of House, and they are only 160 points. My question is, if I buy an episode, can I transfer that from the HDD to a flash drive and keep stuff like that separate to free space up?

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you mean the rentals? those are only 14 day/24 hour once played. not sure about purchases...

at any rate, congrats on getting the console, you'll be happy with her.

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you mean the rentals? those are only 14 day/24 hour once played. not sure about purchases...

at any rate, congrats on getting the console, you'll be happy with her.

Not the rentals, for the TV episodes it says "Buy".

Thanks, I've gotten my ass kicked in GTA MP haha.

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if it's buy then most likely it makes little difference..knowing them it's supposed to stay on your 360 HDD only. Honestly i resent the 24 hr limit, they learned it from freakin itunes - which i love. but there's been at least three times on the 360 i had movies expire on me.

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if it's buy then most likely it makes little difference..knowing them it's supposed to stay on your 360 HDD only. Honestly i resent the 24 hr limit, they learned it from freakin itunes - which i love. but there's been at least three times on the 360 i had movies expire on me.

That sucks, I wouldn't get movies, but I would buy TV episodes, they are not that big in sizes either. But I'd rather have them stored off of the 360. Connect them to a flash drive would be great.

If anyone wants to have a round on GTA or Left 4 Dead, my gamertag is TheUnknown1087, Let me know if you add me so I know who is who.

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If you buy TV show episodes, you have a perpetual license for them on the 360, you can delete and redownload them, play them on other 360s as long as you are logged into Live, etc, just like games that you buy in the marketplace.

You could copy them to a memory card (potentially), but you can't copy them to a thumb drive and then use them on your PC. They're stacked with 360 specific DRM.

Movies have a different license on the 360 than TV shows do, if you read the license information panel, it will tell you the specifics, but I believe it is 48 hours starting from the first time you play the file, or two weeks from purchase, whichever comes first.

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Oh ok thanks guys.

Also when using the media center to stream video, music and whatever. Does that use my internet bandwidth at all? I don't think it would but someone told me that it does.

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nope. Its just going from your computer to the network hub(router/switch) and then to the 360. The Internet only gets accessed if your 360 is on live. But if you sign off and are streaming, it still streams without using internet bandwith

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nope. Its just going from your computer to the network hub(router/switch) and then to the 360. The Internet only gets accessed if your 360 is on live. But if you sign off and are streaming, it still streams without using internet bandwith

Thats what I thought.

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hmm good question..would say no to that. never seen anyone using their own pic, like we do here. it's only files billed "gamerpic" by MS.

you may think this centralized model is annoying at first, but you'll come to love the structure and security. mother knows best.

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hmm good question..would say no to that. never seen anyone using their own pic, like we do here. it's only files billed "gamerpic" by MS.

you may think this centralized model is annoying at first, but you'll come to love the structure and security. mother knows best.

haha ok

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The closest you can get to using your own picture is to use the Live Vision camera - that allows you to take a picture of something and set it to be your "Personal Gamer Picture" but only people on your friends list will see it - everyone else will see the normal one that you have set.

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The closest you can get to using your own picture is to use the Live Vision camera - that allows you to take a picture of something and set it to be your "Personal Gamer Picture" but only people on your friends list will see it - everyone else will see the normal one that you have set.

Oh ok thanks

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Also when using the media center to stream video, music and whatever. Does that use my internet bandwidth at all? I don't think it would but someone told me that it does.

If that was true, then my internet connection would have been shaped by now. lol

No, it goes through the local network..it doesn't venture out near the internet at all. Infact, when you are offline the internet, you can still stream stuff to your 360.

As for stuff downloaded from Live...Basically everything that is on Marketplace is locked to be used on an Xbox360 and not anything else. You can't transfer anything that is on Marketplace from Xbox360 to PC or other types of computers.

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