Connecting your Xbox 360 to a MP3 Player, iPods supported

The media aspect of the Xbox 360 isn't one to be ignored, but remember that in the Microsoft home, the PC is still at the center.

If you have any Windows XP machines on the same network to which the 360 is connected, the machine will search automatically for any and all shared music, pictures and videos and make them accessible from the media panel of the Xbox 360 dashboard.

If you have a Media Center Edition PC, the Xbox 360 will also act as a Media Center Extender, streaming any SD or HD content from your MCE machine.

You can also connect a digital camera or portable media player and access the device's content on your Xbox 360. Microsoft did confirm that both the iPod and the PSP would be supported, albeit with some obvious limitations. Songs that you've downloaded from iTunes (with their DRM entact) will not be playable through the Xbox 360 dashboard, but any other MP3 files that you've stored on your iPod will work just fine.

What happens when you plug in a MP3 player? You get a list of what's on it of course:


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  • Shinei - Friday, May 20, 2005 - link

    I think it's pretty well confirmed by now that KillZone 2 is not pre-rendered; it's a demo recorded from actual gameplay and played back at the E3 Sony conference. It's been shown that IGN isn't the most reliable source of "inside" information, so please don't counter with an IGN links.
    And from what I've heard from KillZone 1 players, the KZ2 demo looks to have fixed most of the problems from KZ1. Of course, these same people also play KillZone for the shooting, and not the sweeping storyline, so mileage may, of course, vary.
  • knitecrow - Friday, May 20, 2005 - link

    killzone 2??

    did you play the original?

    Ok, I can understand DMC4, tekken and even MGS4 BUT killzone?





    Would people be attracted to a system if they showed pre-rendered footage from Driv3r, cat woman or some other bad game?

  • Shinei - Friday, May 20, 2005 - link

    Oh man, I hope they offer wired controllers--I'm not in the mood to pay for the unit, the games, the controllers, XBox Live, AND batteries for the damn controllers. F that right in its overused A.
    Other than that, good condensation of all known data for XBox 2. I'm still on the fence about buying one, but that's only because the game lineup is so weak right now (and KillZone 2 is SO promising)...

    ps, first post with constructive content, OWNED nubcakes.

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