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So far the only live stuff I’ve seen on my 360 has been soccer. But I am very impressed with how well it works. On all the shows, live included, buffering only lasts a second or two and it starts playing. I wonder if it is an IPTV protocol.

I keep meaning to check out the Netflix and voice chat improvements but I get side tracked.

And it looks like the XBOX site is getting ready to offer the family subscription soon.  I wonder if the fall update had to be in place before they open that subscription up.

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I’ll definitely watch the 6 episodes and hope they can come up with fresh material to continue.

As far as Spartacus, I wonder how it will go with them having to cast a new actor for Spartacus.

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I’m jealous :-). Indy doesn’t get squat outside the race. I don’t even see us on Sprint’s list to get 4G.

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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227550&cm_re=ocz_vertex_2-_-20-227-550-_-Product

I run these in Raid 0 but even 1 is much faster than the Kingston. It is about 10 bucks more and read and writes are 70 – 80Mbps faster.

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I’d take a look at a glossy white case. To match my Wii and XBOX. I think white and silver hide dust better.

The lids look interesting. Are they held down by those cam locks? I wonder if a felt gasket on the bottom of the lids would be needed for vibration.

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I am a Gigabyte fan personally.
If I were to build today I’d go with this one.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128444

I try to find a balance of price and good reviews. And even if I plan on using a discrete video card I like having on board video for troubleshooting or eventually if the board goes into WHS server duty or one of the kids PCs I can get the power savings of the onboard video and better airflow.

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If I knew I was building an ATX case I would use an ATX board.

My reasons.

1. You can space out the cards you put in for better airflow
2. You never know what you might want to add later. If you already are using a discrete video card and a discrete sound card then 2 of the four slots are full. If you were to throw in a Ceton tuner your PCI-e slot would be goen and now you are already down to 1 and each cards is pretty much on top of the other.
3. I potentially see a USB 3 card in my future also.

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I’d either buy into it if it were in my TV or if it came with a cablecard.

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Just be prepared to wait. I had an order in at Cannon and when I found out it would not be until after Christmas I decided to hold off until next year to see what happens with Uverse and the ability to use my existing 360s as extenders of the Uverse box instead of having to rent boxes. Hopefully we find out next month with the next 360 update.

I think our member xjboonie has an order in at Cannon still. I wonder if he has heard anything about when he will receive his. The order status is maintained on a list at TGB.

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At work using Chrome as my browser it took 4 seconds from the time I clicked play to start the movie.

When I tethered my computer to my Sprint Phone with a 3g connection it took about 8-10 seconds to start.

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But how long does it take for the movie to start playing in Media Center (or the PC in general)?  Mine has to go through the testing connection, which usually doesn’t take that long, and then it has to go through the buffering, which does take several minutes.  The PS3 doesn’t seem to do any buffering at the beginning because when I push play, it says “retrieving”, and it only takes a few seconds before I’m actually watching the movie.
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When the testing connection screen pops up the progress bar fills up in about a second, then a I get a blue circle made of dots that grow as the movie buffers for about 3 seconds and the movie starts playing. It takes about as much time to start as it takes to load an ISO from my WHS and start playing it.

I am on Comcast 10Mbps cable. Now six months ago I would have said it was a slower experience but that was mainly an issue with the title browser. But it is all very acceptable now.

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I just spent about an hour over there. Great find.

My Netflix guide takes a second or two to load on Media Center but after that everything fires up as quick as any other streaming site. I’d strongly suggest going wired.

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I thought DVD Fab always made me shut down AnyDVD before it would work.

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I’ve hooked a few people up with Netflix over the last couple months and they were really surprised at how much content there is. Especially when I showed them that what is popping up on the XBOX is a very small portion of what you can put in your que from a PC. I heard the fall update is supposed to fix the XBOX and enable searching for titles.

If there is a cheaper streaming only plan I’ll be all over it. I usually use the DVD deliviery option for TV series and I go to RedBox for new releases. BD releases are only 1.50 here in Indy.

And my guess is that the HD shows are 720P but they look good to me. But even SD is fine with me if the show is a good one I don’t get any less entertainment by not seeing small wrinkles or individual blades of grass. Fire up some Miami Vice, a bikini is still a bikini whether it is 480i or 1080p.

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Hmmm. Is there an option to have BD movies fill in the blank bars top and bottom?

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