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| Xbox 360 Elite is 1337 LootAt A Glance
Published April 27, 2007 As you might have heard, there's a new console in town: Xbox 360™ Elite. This ebony beauty takes your games and media to a whole new level with a bigger hard drive and a new HDMI port.
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The whole kit and caboodle. Not a bad little package, I must say. I could use that big hard drive right about now. Elite Entertainment Let me tell you, that hard drive is quite roomy. You can save tons of stuff on it: game saves, game demos, Xbox LIVE® Arcade games, themes and gamer pictures, ripped music, downloaded video. Ah yes, video. Store movies, TV shows, trailers, music videos, community videos, much of it available in glorious high definition. Good times. In case you're curious about HDMI, it stands for High-Definition Multimedia Interface. It's a way of transmitting audio and video to your TV using a digital connection. It carries audio and video on the same cable, so it's a convenient way to hook up your console to your TV without a mess of cables to worry about. Use the HDMI audio cable alongside the HDMI cable if you have a rad sound system and don't want to pipe audio just to your TV. Don't have HDMI on your TV? No worries, we've got you covered with the component HD AV cable right in the box. I know. We're so nice. By the by, the Xbox 360 HDMI, component, and VGA HD AV cables are all capable of producing 1080p video resolution for games and downloaded videos. The HDMI and VGA cables support 1080p for DVD and HD DVD, with the component limited to 480p for DVD and 720p and 1080i for HD-DVD. Accessories All Xbox 360 accessories (yes, even the white ones) work with Xbox 360 Elite. Upgrade to Xbox 360 Elite The Xbox 360 Transfer Kit includes a transfer cable and a disc. To use it, attach your Xbox 360 20GB hard drive to your new console and connect the new 120GB hard drive to the same console with the transfer cable. Pop in the transfer disc, follow the instructions, and voilà. The transfer kit is a one-time, all-or-nothing deal. You don't get to pick what to transfer, and all of your stuff is erased from the original drive when it's done. It'll also erase everything from the new drive before it begins, so don't put anything on the new drive until after the transfer. Some content may not transfer, such as unmovable or corrupted content, but the transfer kit is the only way to transfer certain saves (some games don't allow copying of saves) and preloaded content. An important note about transfers: any time you move content from one console to another, the licenses stay with the old console. This is true whether you use the transfer kit, move saved material with a memory unit, redownload, or just attach the old drive to a new console. Because the content is licensed only to the console and the Xbox LIVE® account that downloaded the content, you'll have to sign in to Xbox LIVE with your account any time you want to use it on the new console. (To avoid this, you may prefer purchasing the 120GB hard drive separately. Transfer content from the old hard drive to the new one. Since it's the same console, your licenses remain intact.) The console licensing restriction applies to most content downloaded from Xbox LIVE® Marketplace, including Xbox LIVE® Arcade games, videos, and TV shows. Movie rentals have a more restrictive license (no "roaming" with your Xbox LIVE account), so you won't be able to access those at all on another console. Watch your movie rentals on the original console before transferring your content. More Info |
