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Xbox 360 Gets Streaming Netflix
SV Staff  |  Jul 15, 2008  | 
Got Xbox?  Hope you didn't spend all your lunch money on a Roku box, because you're about to become redundant. I hate it when that happens. Netflix's online streaming library is going to be available on Xbox 360 systems, most likely this...
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Xbox 360 HDMI Fix Coming at 2:00am
SV Staff  |  Feb 02, 2009  | 
Xbox 360 has had a problem ever since NXE went live - the HDMI outputs haven't worked. Not for NXE, any other games or even movies or streaming.  Sucks for you, right?Luckily, Microsoft has finally admitted that it's a problem on...
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Xbox 360 is officially getting cheaper
SV Staff  |  Aug 27, 2009  | 
After Sony announced a new slimmer, cheaper version of the PS3, it was only a matter of time before bid daddy Microsoft announced a price drop on their Xbox 360. From here on out, the Xbox 360 Pro will be no more, with the remaining stock being...
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Xbox 360 might be getting ESPN streaming
SV Staff  |  Jan 19, 2010  | 
Good news for Xbox 360 owners: you might be able to watch live sporting events through your Xbox and ESPN in the future. According to the New York Times, Microsoft and Disney are in talks to potentially bring ESPN content to the Xbox. The...
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Xbox 360 Turning Blu
SV Staff  |  Oct 09, 2008  | 
Check the weather - looks like a freeze might be coming. Back in the day, PS3 was Blu-ray, Xbox 360 was HD DVD. And, Toshiba was HD DVD, and still refuses to switch to Blu-ray. My, oh my, how times are changing. X-bit Labs is reporting that...
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Xbox 360 Universal Remote
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Nov 14, 2005  | 
Perhaps you're thinking, "Hey, that new Xbox 360 looks pretty hot," along with the thought, "Man, how many remote controls do I need to figure out in order to use my home entertainment system?" It might just be, then, that the idea of adding a remote control for the Xbox 360 into your living room will be too much for your precarious state of mind.
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Xbox 360's Video Marketplace going 1080p
SV Staff  |  Jun 01, 2009  | 
Buying HD content from The Xbox Live Marketplace has always been pretty good, but waiting a long time for 720p content is always kind of annoying. Today, on the first day of video game trade show, E3, they announced that they were changing things...
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Xbox Netflix update lets you watch with friends
SV Staff  |  Aug 15, 2009  | 
A few days ago, I mentioned the new Xbox 360 update that includes some new Netflix features, such as browsing the service's streamable library directly from the Xbox. I've had some time to play around with it, and I've grown to appreciate another...
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Xbox to sport Blu-ray sidecar?
 |  Jan 22, 2006  | 

Gaming sites all over the web were abuzz last week with reports of Microsoft offering an external Blu-ray Disc drive for its Xbox 360 game console. The hubbub started when Microsoft’s Peter Moore stated, in an interview with a Japanese gaming site, that if Blu-ray becomes the apparent winner in the format war Microsoft could accommodate that format easily with an external drive. By the end of the week Microsoft, staunchly in the HD DVD camp along with Intel, was spinning his comments, and reiterating the computer giant's support for HD DVD.

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Xbox, set (at last) to take over your living room
Michael Berk  |  Jun 06, 2011  | 

Microsoft's keynote was the hot ticket this morning at the E3 Expo, and the company didn't disappoint. While a few had held out hopes for a hardware surprise (the company dominated last year's event with the Kinect motion controller), no such thing was forthcoming from Redmond.

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XM + Sirius = More Options
SV Staff  |  Oct 01, 2008  | 
Sirius and XM may still have separate web sites, but they're rapidly merging their resources following their announced (and FCC approved) merger. Rather then painfully having to choose one service over another (or even more painfully, having to pay...
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XM and Sirius join forces to grease the FCC's wheels
SV Staff  |  Jul 24, 2008  | 
It's been a long, arduous, paperwork-strewn path, but at last Sirius and XM Satellite Radio companies are . . . a little bit closer to coming together. The long-awaited merger is still in the hands of the Federal Communications Commission, but both...
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XM and Sirius Partisan Politics
SV Staff  |  Jun 19, 2008  | 
It seems we might be one tiny step closer to the FCC approval needed for the merger between XM and Sirius satellite radio companies. We reported last month that it might make a June FCC agenda, and it appears that party politics are playing a role...
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xMEMS Labs Demonstrates Tiny Silicon Chip Speakers
Howard Kneller  |  Apr 18, 2023  | 
It is not every day I get an opportunity to audition a completely new type of speaker. So, it was with a fair amount of excitement that I attended a press event in New York City hosted by Silicon Valley startup xMEMS Labs.
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xMEMS Labs Unveils ‘Reference Design’ for Wireless Earbuds in Push to Accelerate Adoption of Solid-State Microspeakers
SV Staff  |  Jun 04, 2024  | 
xMEMS Labs, the Santa Clara-based company that set out on a mission in 2023 to replace the traditional drivers used in many wireless earbuds with a new breed of silicon-based microspeaker, today announced the availability of two new “reference designs” it hopes will accelerate the adoption of its novel technology.
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