Its sort of rare when a piece of technology acts almost exactly as advertised. As someone who had been in the Windows world for about 15 years I think I’m mighty skeptical. I remember lining up for Windows ‘95 and then realizing that while better than Windows 3.1, better is a term of art rather than a hard and fast law. When I switched to being mostly Mac-based in the last couple years, I’ve seen tech work closer to how its been touted, ditto for the iPhone and iPod.
But this is Microsoft here, and while the XBox is – in my opinion – the best next generation system out there, it hasn’t been flawless (I have had two red rings of death). And I really wish I could play Blu-Ray on it somehow. But the recent rollout of the new dashboard (and I could do without the cutesy Mii-knockoffs) has been pretty slick and the streaming both from my desktop and via the Netflix service has been awesome. It’s actually easier to navigate than the Comcast On-Demand system in my horribly noisy cable box. The only big drawback I see is that I have to go to my computer and log in to Netflix to add video to the queue. I don’t see why they couldn’t build a way to flip through Netflix via the XBox.
But it’s still a pretty sweet feature. It’s no Gears Of War 2, but then…
I agree, both that the Netflix on Xbox is pretty sweet and that they need to add a way to browse without me having to run over to my computer. I actually dropped my plan with them down to the minimum ($9 a month, I think), since I figured I’d need fewer physical discs.
Xbox.
I assume that is a game playing platform of some sort? Computer games – I was really good at the tennis game thingy until version two came out and they introduced the balls having “English” on them. Much too difficult for me. I always thought PacMan was just silly. As for modern games where you hunt down people and kill them – when I’m in that mood I lie back and think about my first wife. Now, that’s a hunt I could believe in!
when I’m in that mood I lie back and think about my first wife.
Ooh, I gotta try that!