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Texas family suing Microsoft. It's not the new Xbox that created the problem, just the old one. Microsoft was in the process of recalling the units due to a known power supply problem. This time MS is going to have some serious legal difficulties. If they decide to fight, because unlike software EULA is not sufficient protection. With what may only be incipient evidence, it appears the MS fails to learn the lessons of their past errors:
It seems the recent failures on the new 360 Xboxes may be mostly attributable to overheating of the power supplies. One fix described is to hang the box above the floor with string to allow cooling from below. Hey, do you think I could patent the idea that some stray pieces of Lego blocks (or knock offs) at strategic corners can efficiently cool defective Microsoft game machines? Sounds reasonable to me. Talk to Tom on where to send the checks, it's just a numbered account in Switzerland so that I can properly credit your account for using my IP. Warning to MS - IT'S MINE, BACK OFF!!
"There have been several postings over at Xbox-scene complaining of crashing Xbox's on new games, with default settings on single player. Crashes on Xbox Live and on startup have been reported too, and Project Gotham Racing 3 crashes before finishing the first lap. Screenshots and Video are available showing the crash."
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/23/138200&tid...
The 360 DVD player. It's just not good.
"I've thrown a few discs at it, with mixed results. The good news is that it is a progressive scan DVD player, and so far it has played every burned DVD I've thrown at it. The bad news is the video quality just isn't that great. On Episode 3 it looked decent, but my Samsung progressive player blew it out of the water. On other discs I noticed so very apparent dithering and artifacts in the black areas of the screen.
While it's a nice bonus, don't expect this to replace a good DVD player in your home theater. "
http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2005/11/24/1927
"Representatives claimed that the leaked pictures of the 360 power supply was only for their protoype. As we can see now... they weren't exactly telling the truth. Gonna need a strong forarm to carry that 360 home from the store!!"
http://digg.com/gaming/Proof:_The_XBOX_360_Brick_power_suppl...
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http://forums.xbox.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=552599 http://search.ebay.com/broken-xbox_W0QQfkrZ1QQfromZR8
XBox is crashing with Blue Screens of Death: http://www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/
Video of crash and other links from XBox-Scene News: http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=462241
MS' console a Trusted Platform? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/30/infineon_xbox_360_ch...
Initial Xbox 360 reviews good not great http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/22/xbox360_reviews_good...
"There have been several postings over at Xbox-scene complaining of crashing Xbox's on new games, with default settings on single player. Crashes on Xbox Live and on startup have been reported too, and Project Gotham Racing 3 crashes before finishing the first lap. Screenshots and Video are available showing the crash." http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/23/138200&tid...
The 360 DVD player. It's just not good. "I've thrown a few discs at it, with mixed results. The good news is that it is a progressive scan DVD player, and so far it has played every burned DVD I've thrown at it. The bad news is the video quality just isn't that great. On Episode 3 it looked decent, but my Samsung progressive player blew it out of the water. On other discs I noticed so very apparent dithering and artifacts in the black areas of the screen. While it's a nice bonus, don't expect this to replace a good DVD player in your home theater. " http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2005/11/24/1927
"Representatives claimed that the leaked pictures of the 360 power supply was only for their protoype. As we can see now... they weren't exactly telling the truth. Gonna need a strong forarm to carry that 360 home from the store!!" http://digg.com/gaming/Proof:_The_XBOX_360_Brick_power_suppl...