xboxtoday.ca— It will feature a download manager for 6 parallel downloads in the background. Also mentions that there will be a lot more features in there but it will be a surprise and he wont talk about it.
May 14, 2006View in Crawl 4
Excellent ! Keyboard and mouse support !oh wait.. They need to integrate MSN Messenger and a Browser, they'd have nearly a pc replacement at that time. Being able to post to xbox.com or something would be good too.
I don't see why you'd bother with parallel downloads anyway. They're all from the same source so you just get 6 things in 6x the time instead of 1 thing in 1/6 the time.
If it's true it is a very welcome addition to an already excellent Xbox Live offering. I am *not* sure why MS wouldn't have announced this as a coming update at E3 so I have doubts it is true for the near future though...Also this article speculates that only people with big broadband connections will be able to download in the background without spoiling performance in online xbox games like GRAW... i doubt that will be an issue because if MS does this they will implement some kind of bandwidth throttling that will ensure games have plenty of bandwidth to be played even if it means your background downloads take hours and hours to get.
I would love to see the DirectTV HD recording Blade that they have talked about. That would save me a tone of $$ on the purchase of another Reciever just for DirectTV.
Do you think it would work with back-comp games like Halo 2 or Chaos Theory? I mean, since the guide would not be available, would the downloads keep running? Anyway, this seems unlikely, but it would definitely be cool.
flintyMay 14, 2006
Souns pretty sweet! Shame they seem to have missed the E3 boat :(
onetrackMay 15, 2006
Excellent ! Keyboard and mouse support !oh wait.. They need to integrate MSN Messenger and a Browser, they'd have nearly a pc replacement at that time. Being able to post to xbox.com or something would be good too.
kewldude606May 15, 2006
I don't see why you'd bother with parallel downloads anyway. They're all from the same source so you just get 6 things in 6x the time instead of 1 thing in 1/6 the time.
canyonblueMay 15, 2006
If it's true it is a very welcome addition to an already excellent Xbox Live offering. I am *not* sure why MS wouldn't have announced this as a coming update at E3 so I have doubts it is true for the near future though...Also this article speculates that only people with big broadband connections will be able to download in the background without spoiling performance in online xbox games like GRAW... i doubt that will be an issue because if MS does this they will implement some kind of bandwidth throttling that will ensure games have plenty of bandwidth to be played even if it means your background downloads take hours and hours to get.
guynextdoorMay 15, 2006
Please gosh NO cursor...what kind of idea is that? You add a cursor, and added complexity follows to clutter up an elegant interface.
owdenbowdenMay 15, 2006
I would love to see the DirectTV HD recording Blade that they have talked about. That would save me a tone of $$ on the purchase of another Reciever just for DirectTV.
pychochiefMay 15, 2006
Do you think it would work with back-comp games like Halo 2 or Chaos Theory? I mean, since the guide would not be available, would the downloads keep running? Anyway, this seems unlikely, but it would definitely be cool.