Joe

One more spam message ... I plan on calling MS to get this 360 replaced. I had thought I had gotten my unit after the manufacturing start-up issues ... appears not.

I love the unit and games and scoffed at those saying they moved the unit while running ... I'm just not one of those people.

And let me be VERY CLEAR. I have NEVER moved the 360 while it is running.

Yes, I do in fact have this problem. I just verified it after buying Oblivion. I thought it was a problem after seeing my PD0 have scratches and same with DOA4. But I closely checked my Oblivion disk before putting it in. And now it has scratches. In fact the game sometimes halts saying the disk is dirty.

When you look at the disk at first it SEEMS very scratched, but in fact it appears to be some form of residue which I can NORMALLY take off using an eye glass cloth. But I'm not so lucky with some scratches, although it hasn't prevented the games from executing, I am going to look to get the game replaced.

As a note, this has happened when I have had the 360 horizontal or vertical. There appears to be no pattern except some form of certain spin-up of the DVD drive.

And I have a unit built in January.

Hey, take a look here

http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/strategy/vivapinata/news.html?sid=6146002&page=2&q=

They talk of a new Live feature! Object transfer. IF that is true, you an envision they can build an entire barter system or selling system between people.

Most people would consider me an Xbox fanboy, but I'm a little surprisedat the response to the screenshots. The don't look that bad graphically, just a bit boring.

As for no anti-aliasing...remember this is a downsampled jpg (res is only 1024 x 606), so things like jaggies would be less apparent. So it doesn't mean this guy is crisp and clean ... just can't tell until we see a full image.

Not sure I'm following here. I have a VGA cable and it works like a charm. Are you sure your panel doesn't need a bit of config? I had to set my monitor and 360 correctly. I set the 360 to 1280x768, and have the monitor set to fill the space ... works like a charm.