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I'm in the market for one and am looking for the best place to make a purchase. I'd rather buy a used one since I would likely get it cheaper and have a chance at getting a bundle. Ebay would be the best place, right?
 
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I got a good deal at Gamespot a while back. I want to say 300 for the hard drive and contoller with tax.
 
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Amazon was selling them for $100 on Friday morning... :wacko: It was a Black Friday special, and they were only selling 1,000 at that price.
 
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rwemyss said:
Amazon was selling them for $100 on Friday morning... :wacko: It was a Black Friday special, and they were only selling 1,000 at that price.
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And they lasted 29 seconds according to a Amazon rep.

If you are in Atlanta or anywhere else with a Microcenter, you can get them for $100 off there. They extended the mail in rebate through the holidays. Good on both packages.

I'd rather buy new than used with the 360, given the number of people that have had problems. Mine had 0 problems until mid-August (launch day unit) and then it bit the dust. Freak had to send his back in once. I know others that have sent theirs back for repairs.
 
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Some were bricked after the fall update via XBL, and actually made money off the repairs. :lol:
 
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DrRosenRosen said:
And they lasted 29 seconds according to a Amazon rep.

If you are in Atlanta or anywhere else with a Microcenter, you can get them for $100 off there. They extended the mail in rebate through the holidays. Good on both packages.

I'd rather buy new than used with the 360, given the number of people that have had problems. Mine had 0 problems until mid-August (launch day unit) and then it bit the dust. Freak had to send his back in once. I know others that have sent theirs back for repairs.
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For the record, mine worked, I just had to press the power button three or four times for it to come on. It still played ok. I had the microsoft people send me a box to have it shipped to them for a replacement but I decided to wait until it was almost a year old (just recently) and take it back to EB Games. I took advantage of my one year warranty and they just swapped it for a new one.
 
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vol_freak said:
For the record, mine worked, I just had to press the power button three or four times for it to come on. It still played ok. I had the microsoft people send me a box to have it shipped to them for a replacement but I decided to wait until it was almost a year old (just recently) and take it back to EB Games. I took advantage of my one year warranty and they just swapped it for a new one.
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Smart man. :rock:
 
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I had mine replaced for free, just had to wait about 3 weeks. Which reminds me, I need to but the extended warranty from microsoft. Is it worth it or is it a waist of money?
 
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Been happy with mine even with the replacement. Never missed my sony one bit.
 
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I was just poking at your spelling of waste, BD, just some friendly ribbing. :)

I'm a xbox fanboy, I just haven't made the move from the original to 360 yet. My $150 xbox is still doing everything I want it to. :rock:
 
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rwemyss said:
I was just poking at your spelling of waste, BD, just some friendly ribbing. :)

I'm a xbox fanboy, I just haven't made the move from the original to 360 yet. My $150 xbox is still doing everything I want it to. :rock:
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Isn't the 360 hard to hijack? I know the XBox is a pretty simple piece of machinery, easy to do what you want with it. All my friends that hotrod them say "it's not a video game console. It's a budget computer tower."
 
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milohimself said:
Isn't the 360 hard to hijack? I know the XBox is a pretty simple piece of machinery, easy to do what you want with it. All my friends that hotrod them say "it's not a video game console. It's a budget computer tower."
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Yes and no... the 360 has yet to be cracked to run unsigned code, but the DVD firmware can be modified to allow you to play signed code from recordable media (ie copied games).

You're right though, the xbox is simply a cheap media center PC. It seems that Sony is going to try to get in on that same action by allowing a linux port for their machine.

Btw, the 360 is also a good media center, except that it only runs WMV encoded video.
 
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Yeah, the lack of video functionality really hurts the 360 IMO. Microsoft is really shooting themselves in the foot with their knack for exclusivity of file types... WMA's and such.
 
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milohimself said:
Freak, weren't you gonna get in on this action? Let us know how it goes.
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I've been meaning to do this but haven't yet. The YDL release came out Sunday. I'm waiting for some reviews, comments to start popping up about it. Screenshots look nice and this is supposedly the more offical PS3 linux release since Sony has helped them some.
 
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DrRosenRosen said:
They have expanded it some in the last month or two. Lots of .mpgs now work along with some others.
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The main problem is the lack of MPEG-4 support for .avi container files (ie xVid and DivX encoded files). The only reason they added any sort of MPEG-4 codec is b/c HD-DVD is MPEG-4. I understand them not wanting to get into piracy issues, but the reality is that any home video I have produced is in .avi with xVid. In the end, programs have been produced to encode on the fly and get around this issue so they might as well add .avi support.
 
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rwemyss said:
I was just poking at your spelling of waste, BD, just some friendly ribbing. :)

I'm a xbox fanboy, I just haven't made the move from the original to 360 yet. My $150 xbox is still doing everything I want it to. :rock:
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No worries man, was never upset. I hardly have any time for the thing now-just eas superimpressed with the quality customer service I got.
 
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DUH..I feel like a fool. Sometimes the brain gets ahead of the fingers. That is funny though. I must have been looking at the pics forum just before that or something for that freudian slip.
 
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Bigdaddy, are you on xbox live? If so, what is your name and I'll put you on my friends list.
 
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actually anybody who's on xbox live...I'm VOLARKIN....give me a shout and we'll play, I've been on Gears of War like a madman.
 
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