Note: We learned after publication that the abnormally priced movie rental has not yet been released in theaters. As such, it has a higher price.
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by Richard Mitchell 
on Oct 19th 2009 7:00PM
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Note: We learned after publication that the abnormally priced movie rental has not yet been released in theaters. As such, it has a higher price.
Reader Comments (120)
Posted: Oct 19th 2009 11:13PM Hidesquadron1 said
I think that certain wireless keyboards do work, but don't quote me on that. As long as it doesn't require a driver install it should work, and since some wireless keyboard dongles will work without special drivers on the pc side, its worth a shot. It really comes down to trial and error. I dont imagine bluetooth dongles would work since those need both driver and stack support, both of which the xbox wont have since theres no bluetooth chip inside.
Hope that helps.
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Hope that helps.
Posted: Oct 20th 2009 9:08AM MowDownJoe said
Just use a USB keyboard if you have one. I caught Major Nelson mentioning that in a status update while looking at the Facebokk section of the main video, pardon the mental diarrhea.
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Posted: Oct 20th 2009 9:35PM douglasp75 said
I ve been using a usb wireless keyboard for years on the xbox. its a kensington wireless keyboard and it works. It seems that it has a generic keyboard driver that supports usb.
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Posted: Oct 19th 2009 11:27PM rickfoster said
For The House of the Devil Pricing: I believe it's 1500 MSP, and this is my theory, is because it's Pre-Release...It hasn't been released in theaters yet. I haven't looked at any of the other pricing for movies but I think that's why it's so high.
Posted: Oct 19th 2009 11:41PM KinseySS said
If it is the case of movies being offered as a download rent at the same time when movies come out to the theatres, I am seriously on the fence on this.
Yes it is a neat idea of being able to watch a movie in my home on opening night rather than going to a theatre. However, if it becomes common practice in the future it would literally kill the cinema business. When you can just invite a ton of people over to see a brand new movie for a couple dollars a person. Nothing can replace seeing a movie with that atmosphere of a huge crowd enjoying a flick together.
That being said, no studio in their right mind would ever allow their movies to be put up on digital download as opening release. there's just no money into it what so ever. They would lose 100's of millions of dollars a movie if this ever went through.
The only way i could see this becoming common practice are for made for TV movies, direct to BD/DVD movies, or limited showing movies.
Yes it is a neat idea of being able to watch a movie in my home on opening night rather than going to a theatre. However, if it becomes common practice in the future it would literally kill the cinema business. When you can just invite a ton of people over to see a brand new movie for a couple dollars a person. Nothing can replace seeing a movie with that atmosphere of a huge crowd enjoying a flick together.
That being said, no studio in their right mind would ever allow their movies to be put up on digital download as opening release. there's just no money into it what so ever. They would lose 100's of millions of dollars a movie if this ever went through.
The only way i could see this becoming common practice are for made for TV movies, direct to BD/DVD movies, or limited showing movies.
Posted: Oct 19th 2009 11:47PM Baron Milton Von Crompton said
Wow.... I'm speechless... I don't know what to say... What should I say to all this?
Posted: Oct 20th 2009 12:21AM mac4687 said
Quick question to Richard or anyone here:
Do you have to have a Zune HD in order to download a movie and play it on their, or is a Zune SD ok?
Do you have to have a Zune HD in order to download a movie and play it on their, or is a Zune SD ok?
Posted: Oct 20th 2009 1:13AM (Unverified) said
What I love most about Facebook on XBL is FULL SCREEN PHOTOS! I despise Facebook's tiny 600x400 pics. My eyes aren't so good. They're long overdue for an option to choose the size of a photo.
Posted: Oct 20th 2009 2:01AM (Unverified) said
I'm pretty excited, but I don't understand if they will be getting rid of the current xbox video marketplace.
Posted: Oct 20th 2009 4:17AM (Unverified) said
HOLY SHIT! I can update my facebook AND twitter on 360 now! nice, bra...
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Posted: Oct 20th 2009 9:46AM WiNGSPANTT from TopTierTacticsco said
Frankly I think the Facebook implementation looks great. It's just Facebook minus the millions of Farmville and other BS apps. Facebook was a lot better before it start turning into "post random app updates constantlybook"
Posted: Oct 20th 2009 3:54PM (Unverified) said
Look like 360 is filling that media role it's been needing. Good job Microsoft.
Posted: Oct 20th 2009 4:42PM tkashur said
Does anyone know if the zune pass will work with 360? I'm still considering if thats something I wanna sign up for or not.
Posted: Oct 20th 2009 6:41PM (Unverified) said
If they were charging for the last.fm app I'd buy it.
Posted: Oct 21st 2009 10:00AM (Unverified) said
Well doesn't look like something I'll use much if at all. I have all those apps on my phone. If one day they ever got a music app that would play during my games then I would care.
Posted: Oct 22nd 2009 6:43PM (Unverified) said
The reason why the prices seem to vary in the instances you chose are because you happened to pick out a film that is in a "Pre-theatrical release" window. Magnolia Pictures has started offering some select films via digital distribution before they even hit theaters and as such warrant a higher rental price.
Mutant Chronicles, The Great Buck Howard, and The Girlfriend Experience were all released on digital before they were put in theaters. Outside of these films, I've never seen prices vary too much if at all from 320/480 for your usual new release rentals...and seeing as I use my 360 a lot to watch movies digitally, I'd say I have some pretty good personal experience to go off of.
Mutant Chronicles, The Great Buck Howard, and The Girlfriend Experience were all released on digital before they were put in theaters. Outside of these films, I've never seen prices vary too much if at all from 320/480 for your usual new release rentals...and seeing as I use my 360 a lot to watch movies digitally, I'd say I have some pretty good personal experience to go off of.
Posted: Oct 23rd 2009 3:47PM NickDynmo said
This update bricked my 360. Half hour after downloading it and trying out the new content, RROD. :/
On anther note, any idea why Last.fm isn't available in Canada? I have a premium Last.fm account that I use every day, and it'd be nice to use it on my 360 as well. Well, my new 360.
On anther note, any idea why Last.fm isn't available in Canada? I have a premium Last.fm account that I use every day, and it'd be nice to use it on my 360 as well. Well, my new 360.
Posted: Oct 23rd 2009 3:52PM (Unverified) said
Anyone know where Halo Waypoint is located?
Posted: Oct 28th 2009 7:49PM Yoda said
Facebook looks a little bit functional, hoorah!
Posted: Nov 11th 2009 2:45PM (Unverified) said
I like my xbox, but you would think with all the knowledge of MS that they would be ahead of the other gaming systems instead of behind them all. Its all nice and everything that you have added the oh so hard to figure out apps like facebook, twitter, and lastfm but seriously when are you going to move ahead of the other game systems. Maybe you are just waiting for the next system release (XBOX-Genesis, made that up) so that you can make even more money and produce even less then the next guy. There is seriously no reason other than you want to make more money that you haven't addressed more of the things your customers what to see.
