{"id":86,"date":"2005-06-06T18:01:27","date_gmt":"2005-06-07T00:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=86"},"modified":"2006-02-21T08:26:30","modified_gmt":"2006-02-21T16:26:30","slug":"xbox-360-on-the-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/xbox-360-on-the-horizon\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox 360 On The Horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-US\/xbox360\/factsheet.htm\">Microsoft&#8217;s upcoming Xbox 360<\/a> video game console has received a fair amount of press recently. Of course, the only thing I could possibly care about is the multimedia (specifically, full motion video) capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>The media is supposed to be standard DVD. That means that standard DVD-ROM drives should be able to read the raw sectors. Though some kind of DRM is a distinct possibility, and plausible given how centrally-controlled the whole system is. Things such as DRM should be field-upgradable since online support comes with the unit.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft makes much of the fact that the console and all games will support HD resolutions. Since I doubt that FMV will go away anytime soon&#8211; regardless of the capacity to render real-time 3D cutscene animations&#8211; I wonder what video codecs will be used? Bink? <a href=\"http:\/\/radgametools.com\/\">According to RadGameTools&#8217; site<\/a>, Bink already supports the Xbox 360. I did not know Bink was already designed to handle HD material. Microsoft&#8217;s own WMV3\/WMV9\/VC-1\/VC-9 should be an obvious contender as well.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Xbox 360 spec sheet, it is also supposed to be able to serve as a basic entertainment center at least by allowing the user to rip music onto the internal hard drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What kind of multimedia will be packaged with the upcoming Xbox 360?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-multimedia-presswatch"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}