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Hands on with Xbox 360 at Windows Vista event

Xbox 360 Tall RemoteBlogger Jason Dunn attended the big Windows Vista unveiling at the Microsoft campuses in Redmond on Tuesday and got to spend a bit of time learning about the Xbox 360.

His write-up details how the Xbox 360 will interact with Media Center PCs, how it will function as a multimedia device for the living room, and the performance of video played through the Xbox 360.

Besides streaming media, the Xbox 360 will also support media that has been ripped and stored on the 20GB hard drive that will ship with certain Xbox configurations. Dunn speculates that the system will only play Windows file formats, but it's only a matter of time before other formats are hacked into it.

Pictured at right is the "tall" remote referenced in the article. If remote control design becomes a key differentiating factor, expect Sony to release an even longer remote and Nintendo to defensively remind us that it's not really the size of the remote that counts, but what you can do with it.

That's a big remote! It's got a number of buttons for Media Center PCs. It's also got a phone dial pad. Is that a microphone hole just above the asterisk key? Is this phallic monster a telephone? 

We hereby dub this great big white wonder Moby Click.


[Via Xbox Scene, and props to Pappy for the remote name.]



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