Xbox 360 getting 1080p, 5.1 sound ... ads

Hmm, not sure about the ad's. I don't mind that much, as long as they don't clutter up the dashboard and as long as they are not shoved down our throats. All I know is this instant 1080p idea (if it works) is a great one.

Already tried it, it doesnt look nearly as good as 1080p.. but they claim it is.. idk

Do trailers count as ads? If so, then I'm for it

Great, silverlight - because no one uses flash for everything on the web. And ads. Yes, just what we needed to complete the xbox experience that people are already paying monthly for.

Maybe Silverlight could have succeeded if Microsoft released it 10 years ago. When Flash and Shockwave were Macromedia.

The point of Flash is that it runs on almost everything and is a universal standard.

The only thing that is going to use Silverlight is proprietary hardware. Microsoft just can't let any part of computing go without their tentacles wrapped around it.

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Are you censoring me ?

if this lowers the price of live than great, and if not gold subscribers had better start getting free shit

Hello, my name is Michael Pitcher, but you can call me the Truth Articulator.

I predict that the 360 will get a browser. Xbox Live Multiplayer will be free, but gold will be used to subscrib to Last.FM, Netflix, and a new rental service MS is rolling out.

FEAR MY POWERS! SO SAITH THE TRUTH ARTICULATOR!

Fact: There are already ads on XBL, and there have been before and after NXE. Silverlight is just going to increase the ability of the Xbox to show rich media within them.

So what's the big deal?

this better be for 'silver' members because i'll be goddamned before paying for an add-supported, "premium" membership.

Three Reasons Silverlight Support on Xbox is a good thing:
1) Silverlight has some really good 1080p HD Video streaming things built in. This could explain how the Zune Marketplace 1080p instant play works.

2) Netflix has a video player built in silverlight that is capable of 1080p streaming. MS putting Silverlight on 360 could allow netflix to merge it's streaming player into one application that is used on the PC and 360. This would allow them to enhance both platforms at the same time.

3) Silverlight 3.0 is in beta and I'm willing to bet that this is the version that will be put on the 360. While 3.0 has several really cool new features (3D GPU support) the most important is "out-of-browser" support. It is pretty much the same thing as Adobe Air (used by Tweetdeck). The big thing here is that if MS does full Silverlight 3 support on 360 then developers could build a single application in Silverlight and it could run on Windows, Mac OSX, and the Xbox 360. So this in theroy could bring applications beyond games to the 360.

i must be blind i dont see the dead space girl

I could care less about Xbox Live ad's having 1080p visuals, and 5.1 sound. What about the lack of games for the 360 in 2009? A good majority of gamers don't really care much about features anymore especially if it doesn't pertain to any games. Wait I'll take that back. It'll matter for 1 vs 100. Yeah. And I'm not talking about Xbox Live Arcade games. I'm talking about retail games that matter.

Call me when my 360 adds the ability to stream an:

8 GB MKV, or
8 GB MP4. or
Clone Christina Milian and have her sit on my lap in a thong.

until then. I don't care about any feature update on xbox 360.

And I get to pay for it? SWEET!

If they put a proper silverlight viewer/player on the 360, you could actually end up with some really good GAMES written for silverlight. If they did it right, it could be great. Kinda like community games, but created using silverlight's tools instead of xna. Maybe it's just exciting to me because I wanna make simple 2D games for the 360 without having to get so involved with xna.

It doesn't already have ads?

One of my beefs with the NXE is that half the panels on the NXE are just ads. They're ads for Microsoft stuff (games, movie downloads, etc.) but they are attempts to get me to buy more stuff nonetheless.

Heck, Live had had ads since day 1. Even the old Live dashboard had ads for stuff on almost half the blades.

As long as the ads are in HD, I'm all for it!

i don't mind paying for xbl, besides you don't think that xbl fee covers all of xbox division & ms games expense alone ,that were ads come into play. they pay for all that hardware & stuff .all & all no big bother .i will pay untill they tell me otherwise .

Perfect. Just my Xbox 360 needs. More adds. The Xbox 360 OS is gonna be become like its PC OS. WIth just a hint of America Online. Ok, maybe more America Online. Adds all over the place. And, to suck you in, in HD? Who cares? As far as downloading, streaming and downloading I don't think will ever look as good as something tangible, and anyone who wants to download the rest of theirs lives and pay money for something they'll never own, and just own the rights to. So be it. But the day gaming goes that direction, is the day I will cease to buy consoles and video games.

DId you ever see the Futurama where Fry has these dreams at night with advertisments for underwear and he goes to the mall and sees them on display and asks if he can try a pair, the guy at the desk picks up a pair with a stick and spray's them off? I kinda see it like that. The HD is to pose appeal by the picture quality, then its designed to stick in your mind so when you see it, ya wanna buy it cause you say, OH YEAH! I SAW THAT AD ON MY 360! So now my 360's gonna be flooded with ads. My PlayStation 3 is ad free. Maybe Sony is about to pull ahead.

In the NXE, only the Spotlight section have ads and they are all game related. Does it really take any stretch to understand that the 1080P will allow 1080P streaming of those ads when you click on them if you have a set that supports the resolution. This will also allow for 1080P streaming of a lot of video content within the 360 which is a good thing.

Integrating Silverlight technology into the 360 is definitely the smart choice. Silverlight will bring a lot of rich content to the 360 and maybe open up the service for a browser as well.

As for Silverlight 1080P compared to a blu-ray disk. I have watch a 1080P movie from Silverlight and you will find that it is pretty damn nice even up to Blu-Ray. Do not forget that a Blu-ray disk supports multiple languages audio and a host of other stuff that fills the disk. Silverlight is only sending you the movie in one type of soundtrack with one type of audio. You would be hard pressed to find the differences and when you do they are small enough and acceptable where it really doesn't matter.

Why add anything when the NXE is a laggy time trap. Don;t accept or send invites or messages to friends while in an online match. You'll be stuck there 30 seconds to a minute and a half of frozen pain.

Plus why are we waiting for a fall or any seasonal update when they said the NXE could be changed on the fly?